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CVE-2018-17160

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.

  • Published: Dec 4, 2018
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2018-17160
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 10
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
freebsd / freebsd - 11.2
freebsd / freebsd 11.2-p5 11.2-p5.x