CVE-2016-5337

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-06-14 · updated 2026-06-17

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 products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04
Debian Linux: 8.0
QEMU: through 2.6.2

References

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

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