CVE-2016-5107 is an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in QEMU's MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 HBA emulation, affecting various Canonical and Debian QEMU distributions. A local guest OS administrator can exploit this with low attack complexity to cause a denial of service (system crash). The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.0 (Medium) and is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog. There is no known public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage, suggesting low active exploitation or interest.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
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