CVE-2016-5238: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The get_cmd function in hw/scsi/esp.c in QEMU might allow local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write and QEMU process crash) via vectors related to reading from the information transfer buffer in non-DMA mode.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 16.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Qemu Qemu: up to and including 2.6.2

Published 2016-06-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.