Memory Leak Affecting qemu-guest-agent package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.06% (26th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-CENTOS7-QEMUGUESTAGENT-1952880
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 2 Dec 2015
Introduced: 2 Dec 2015
CVE-2015-8568 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Centos:7
qemu-guest-agent
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-guest-agent
package and not the qemu-guest-agent
package as distributed by Centos
.
See How to fix?
for Centos:7
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79721
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1289816
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8568
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3471
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-01
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/15/10