CVE-2015-8567 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8567?

CVE-2015-8567 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 13 Apr 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

Weakness: CWE-401

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8567?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Opensuse Opensuse, Qemu Qemu and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8567?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-8567 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8567 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8567, GHSA-6cvm-m9r4-p5h6, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8567.