Description (CNA)
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.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / n/a | affected n/a |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.