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Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-QEMUKVM-624091
  • published13 Apr 2017
  • disclosed13 Apr 2017
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Introduced: 13 Apr 2017

CVE-2015-8567  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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

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