CVE-2015-8567
Memory leak in net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
02 Description
Memory leak in net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.55% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.7 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-04-13 17:00Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 08:20Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-12-15
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401Missing Release of Memory after Effective LifetimeVariant
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1a5b637d159e47d22f229e2b0bbab26312d1ef74e885b9a9bc629ad0c01d57e9
05 Affected products
06 References
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1560http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00017.html
- www.securityfocus.com79721http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1703http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00058.html
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0126http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00012.html
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-2891-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2891-1
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:0123http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00010.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-275e9ff483http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176558.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-42778e8c82http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175967.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20151215 Re: CVE request Qemu: net: vmxnet3: host memory leakagehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:0955http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00002.html
- lists.gnu.org[qemu-devel] 20151215 Re: [Qemu-devel] net: vmxnet3: memory leakage issuehttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-2c15b72b01http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176300.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-3471http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:1318http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00049.html
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2016:0873http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00087.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2016-e1784417afhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176503.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201602-01https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2016:1750http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00003.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.5+dfsg-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.5+dfsg-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- qemu Fixed in 1:2.5+dfsg-3
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- qemu Fixed in 2.0.0+dfsg-2ubuntu1.22
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.