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Critical severity10.0NVD Advisory· Published Dec 4, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-17160

CVE-2018-17160

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.

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Affected products

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  • FreeBSD/bhyvellm-fuzzy
    Range: <11.2-STABLE(r341486) and <11.2-RELEASE-p6
  • FreeBSD/FreeBSDv5
    Range: FreeBSD 11.2 before 11.2-RELEASE-p6

Patches

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