What is CVE-2016-3077?

CVE-2016-3077 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ovirt-Engine, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-06.

How severe is CVE-2016-3077?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Red Hat Ovirt-Engine

CVE-2016-3077

The VersionMapper.fromKernelVersionString method in oVirt Engine allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (process crash) for all VMs.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-06-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 62nd percentile — 62.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Ovirt-Engine

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3077?: CVE-2016-3077 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ovirt-Engine, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2017-06-06.
How severe is CVE-2016-3077?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.