CVE-2015-8568

A memory-leak flaw was found in the QEMU emulator built with VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support. The flaw occurred when a guest repeatedly tried to activate the VMXNET3 device. A privileged guest attacker could use this flaw to leak host memory, resulting in denial of service on the host.

This issue does not affect the versions of the kvm and xen packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

This issue does not affect the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 based versions of qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

This issue affects the versions of the qemu-kvm packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

This issue affects the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 based versions of the qemu-kvm-rhev packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.

This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.