CVE-2024-41928

Published Sep 5, 2024

Last updated 2 months ago

Overview

Description
Malicious software running in a guest VM can exploit the buffer overflow to achieve code execution on the host in the bhyve userspace process, which typically runs as root. Note that bhyve runs in a Capsicum sandbox, so malicious code is constrained by the capabilities available to the bhyve process.
Source
secteam@freebsd.org
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
8.4
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
2.5
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

secteam@freebsd.org
CWE-125

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