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CVE-2016-9959 json

game-music-emu before 0.6.1 allows remote attackers to generate out of bounds 8-bit values.

published 2017-04-12 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-10745

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

game-music-emu before 0.6.1 allows remote attackers to generate out of bounds 8-bit values.

Patch / fix

  • game-music-emu Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.6.0-4

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9959

  • game-music-emu Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 0.5.5-2ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • game-music-emu Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 0.6.0-3ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9959

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • libgme SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +6 more 0.6.0-5.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:3250-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-9959 updated

game-music-emu: Multiple issues due to incorrect emulation of the SPC700 audio co-processor of SNES

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.in https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.in/2016/12/redux-compromising-linux-using-snes.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.