CVE-2015-8567

high-risk
Published 2017-04-13

Memory leak in net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Do I need to act?

~
3.5% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
7
CVSS 7.7/10 High
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (19)

Affected Vendors

Qemu Canonical Opensuse Debian Fedoraproject Suse

References (36)

Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176503.h...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176558.h...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175967.ht...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176300.ht...
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00010.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00012.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00087.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00002.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-05/msg00049.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00017.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00058.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00003.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10
Mailing List http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721
Third Party Advisory http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2891-1
Mailing List https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176503.h...
Third Party Advisory http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176558.h...
and 16 more references
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high-risk
Severity 27/34 · High
Exploitability 7/34 · Low
Exposure 19/34 · Moderate