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CVE-2018-17160
CRITICAL · CVSS 10
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-12-04T21:29:00.270 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:45:27.313

Summary

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.

Affected products

freebsd — freebsd

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References

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