CVE-2024-41928

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
FreeBSDFreeBSD14.1-RELEASE < p4affected
FreeBSDFreeBSD14.0-RELEASE < p10affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-125: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
  • CWE-787: CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
  • CWE-1285: CWE-1285 Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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