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CVE-2016-5105

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-5105 describes an uninitialized variable vulnerability in QEMU's MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 HBA emulation, allowing local guest administrators to read host memory via specific MFI commands. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.4) requires high privileges and local access to the guest system, with the primary impact being a high risk of confidentiality compromise. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:qemu:qemu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
0.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
33.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0041 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-5105Low

Qemu: scsi: megasas: stack information leakage while reading configuration

May 25, 2016

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.gnu.org / archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04419.html
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/5
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/26/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3047-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3047-2
Third Party Advisory