High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-5609
CVE-2019-5609
Description
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r350619, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p9, 11.3-STABLE before r350619, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p2, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p13, the bhyve e1000 device emulation used a guest-provided value to determine the size of the on-stack buffer without validation when TCP segmentation offload is requested for a transmitted packet. A misbehaving bhyve guest could overwrite memory in the bhyve process on the host.
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Affected products
27cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 24 more
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p10:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p11:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p12:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p13:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p7:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p8:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.2:p9:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.3:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.0:p8:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: <12.0-RELEASE-p9, <11.3-RELEASE-p2, <11.2-RELEASE-p13
- FreeBSD/bhyve e1000 device emulationdescription
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:21.bhyve.ascnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190910-0002/nvdThird Party Advisory
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