PT-2016-2679 · Qemu+3 · Qemu+3

Li Qiang · Published 2016-05-30 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2016-5105

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

4.4

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the megasas dcmd cfg read function in the hw/scsi/megasas.c file of QEMU, specifically when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support. This function uses an uninitialized variable, allowing local guest administrators to read host memory via vectors involving a MegaRAID Firmware Interface (MFI) command.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Information Disclosure

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

CWE-908

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1043

BDU:2016-02071

CVE-2016-5105

DLA-1599-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2494-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2497-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2016_2642-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10233-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2093-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2100-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2533-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2589-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2628-1

SUSE-SU-2016:2781-1

USN-3047-1

USN-3047-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Qemu

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 385

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-5338 · Vendor Advisory
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