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CVE-2016-5107

21
FAUCET Score

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.

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

6.0MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.5
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.42%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
34.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0042 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 3,720 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2016-5107Moderate

Qemu: scsi: megasas: out-of-bounds read in megasas_lookup_frame() function

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/msg04424.html
Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201609-01
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/05/26/9
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/90874
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3047-1
Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-3047-2
Third Party Advisory