CVE-2018-17160
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2018-17160 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2018-12-04 21:29:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2020-08-24 17:37:00 UTC |
| 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. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-787
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD-SA-18:14 | FREEBSD | security.freebsd.org | Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory |
| FreeBSD CVE-2018-17160 Out of Bounds Write Memory Corruption Vulnerability | BID | www.securityfocus.com | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.