CVE-2015-8567: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 22 only; version 23 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.2 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.5.1.1
• Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only; version 12 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only; version 12 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 11 only; version 12 only

Published 2017-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.