PT-2016-2679

CVE-2016-5105

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Published

2016-05-30

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Updated

2024-06-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1
4.4
Medium
MetricsAV: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.
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Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2017-1043
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
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