CVE-2018-17160

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Publication date:
04/12/2018
Last modified:
24/08/2020

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.

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 11.2 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*