CVE-2015-8567

high
Published 2017-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.7
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
7.7

Description

Memory leak in net/vmxnet3.c in QEMU allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption).

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
85%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8567

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-12/msg02299.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8567.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debian8.0affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu15.10affected
suse suse42.1affected
suse suse13.2affected
suse suse11affected
suse suse12affected
fedora fedora22affected
fedora fedora23affected
debian debianbookwormfixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debianbullseyefixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debianforkyfixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debiansidfixed1:2.5+dfsg-3
debian debiantrixiefixed1:2.5+dfsg-3

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
qemuqemu{"endIncluding":"2.5.1.1"}
suse suselinux_enterprise_debuginfo11

References

CWEs

CWE-401

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.