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CVE-2018-17160

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CVE-2018-17160

Published: Dec 4, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

FreeBSD

FreeBSD

affected
FreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p6

References

FreeBSD-SA-18:14
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_FREEBSD
106210
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID

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