CVE-2016-5107 Denial of service in n/a
Local guest administrators can crash the QEMU host via an out-of-bounds read in the MegaRAID SAS emulation, requiring that specific hardware emulation to be enabled.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2016-5107?
CVE-2016-5107 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 2 Sep 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-125
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5107?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.
How do I fix CVE-2016-5107?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-5107 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5107 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5107, GHSA-9g2h-5x8g-hfg2, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5107.