CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-17160

10.0 CRITICAL Published 2018-12-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-12-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
10.0 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

In FreeBSD before 11.2-STABLE(r341486) and 11.2-RELEASE-p6, insufficient bounds checking in one of the device models provided by bhyve can permit a guest operating system to overwrite memory in the bhyve host possibly permitting arbitrary code execution. A guest OS using a firmware image can cause the bhyve process to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code on the host as root.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (< 11.2) • freebsd freebsd 11.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References