CVE-2016-5337: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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.