CVE-2016-5412

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

0.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 27.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

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

NVD CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/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

2016-08-06 20:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:00Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-06-10

Assigning CNA

redhat

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-399
• CWE-835Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')Base

Data version

5.1

Document digest

e817ba42e0222c08c5662403bbe24d660ac3e01adf2cd13dea0b5f87c2615de0

• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1349916x_refsource_CONFIRM
• git.kernel.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160728 CVE-2016-5412 Kernel: powerpc: kvm: Infinite loop via H_CEDE hypercall when running under hypervisor-modehttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/28/2mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• git.kernel.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3x_refsource_CONFIRM
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2574http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/93d17397e4e2182fdaad503e2f9da46202c0f1c3x_refsource_CONFIRM
• github.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f024ee098476a3e620232e4a78cfac505f121245x_refsource_CONFIRM