CVEs-PoC/2015/CVE-2015-8568.md

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.

POC

Reference

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816

Github

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