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.
Affected products
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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
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 ↗