CVE-2018-17160

Published Dec 4, 2018

Last updated 4 years ago

Overview

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.
Source
secteam@freebsd.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
10
Impact score
6
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
10
Impact score
10
Exploitability score
10
Vector string
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-787

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations