CVE-2016-4952

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

0.36% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 30.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

6.0 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-09-02 14:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 00:46Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-05-23

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-787Out-of-bounds WriteBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ded2a5ce9ef3d8425bcfe9ae2d2d9ba5429a03e4ec1a78544f520dd0e72d037d

• www.ubuntu.comUSN-3047-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160523 CVE request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: out-of-bounds access issue in pvsci_ring_init_msg/data routineshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/23/1mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160523 Re: CVE request: Qemu: scsi: pvscsi: out-of-bounds access issue in pvsci_ring_init_msg/data routineshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/05/23/4mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• lists.gnu.org[qemu-devel] 20160523 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi: pvscsi: check command descriptor ring bufferhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-05/msg03774.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.ubuntu.comUSN-3047-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3047-2vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1334384x_refsource_CONFIRM
• lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20181130 [SECURITY] [DLA 1599-1] qemu security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00038.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST