FKIE_CVE-2016-5337

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-06-14 14:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:49
Severity
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=844864fbae66935951529408831c2f22367a57b6
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/13Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91097Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01969.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=844864fbae66935951529408831c2f22367a57b6
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/13Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/06/08/3Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91097Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-06/msg01969.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qemu qemu *
canonical ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical ubuntu_linux 16.04
debian debian_linux 8.0
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