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CVE-2016-9961

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-9961 is a critical vulnerability affecting game-music-emu versions prior to 0.6.1, as well as products from Fedora, Novell, and openSUSE, stemming from improper handling of unspecified integer values. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability over a network with low attack complexity. Despite its critical severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 0.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:game-music-emu_project:game-music-emu:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
24CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse_project:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0436 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-12/msg00090.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2017-01/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory
bitbucket.org / mpyne/game-music-emu/wiki/Home
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6LKMKVYS7AVB2EXC463FUYN6C6FABHME
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F7Z2OVERYM6NW3FGVGTJUNSL5ZNFSH2S
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GGHAQI5Q2XDSPGRRKPJJM3A73VWAFSFL
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QHFKIFSFIDXOKFUKAH2MBNXDTY6DYBF6
scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.cz / 2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html
ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201707-02
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/12/15/11
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95305
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry