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Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 11, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-8568

CVE-2015-8568

Description

Memory leak in QEMU, when built with a VMWARE VMXNET3 paravirtual NIC emulator support, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service (host memory consumption) by trying to activate the vmxnet3 device repeatedly.

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