CVE-2016-5337 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5337?

CVE-2016-5337 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 14 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The megasas_ctrl_get_info function in hw/scsi/megasas.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to obtain sensitive host memory information via vectors related to reading device control information.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5337?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Qemu Qemu.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5337?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-5337 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5337 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5337, GHSA-4x7w-xmf9-qx55, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5337.