CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-5337

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-06-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2016-06-14
Last modified: 2026-06-17
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected]): 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

The megasas_ctrl_get_info function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information via vectors related to reading device control information.

Affected configurations

• qemu qemu (<= 2.6.2) • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • debian debian linux 8.0

References

http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=844864fbae66935951529408831c2f22367a57b6 git.qemu.org
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/13 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91097 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01969.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory
http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=844864fbae66935951529408831c2f22367a57b6 git.qemu.org
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/13 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91097 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1 Third Party Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2 Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01969.html Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01 Third Party Advisory