CVE-2016-5338

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5338
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5338.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5338
Downstream
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Published
2016-06-14T14:59:02.760Z
Modified
2026-05-15T12:02:24.275492723Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The (1) espregread and (2) espregwrite functions in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (QEMU process crash) or execute arbitrary code on the QEMU host via vectors related to the information transfer buffer.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "12.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages