Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package qemu-kvm (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published2 Sept 2016
- disclosed2 Sept 2016
Introduced: 2 Sep 2016
CVE-2016-5107 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream qemu-kvm package and not the qemu-kvm package as distributed by Ubuntu.
The megasas_lookup_frame function in QEMU, when built with MegaRAID SAS 8708EM2 Host Bus Adapter emulation support, allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and crash) via unspecified vectors.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-5107
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-5107
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201609-01
- https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg04424.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/25/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/26/9
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1336461
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/90874
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2