High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2021· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-29631
CVE-2021-29631
Description
In FreeBSD 13.0-STABLE before n246941-20f96f215562, 12.2-STABLE before r370400, 11.4-STABLE before r370399, 13.0-RELEASE before p4, 12.2-RELEASE before p10, and 11.4-RELEASE before p13, certain VirtIO-based device models in bhyve failed to handle errors when fetching I/O descriptors. A malicious guest may cause the device model to operate on uninitialized I/O vectors leading to memory corruption, crashing of the bhyve process, and possibly arbitrary code execution in the bhyve process.
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Affected products
31cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 28 more
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p10:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p11:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p12:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p13:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p7:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p8:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:11.4:p9:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p10:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p4:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p5:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p6:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p7:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p8:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:12.2:p9:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:13.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:13.0:p1:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:13.0:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:13.0:p3:*:*:*:*:*:*
- FreeBSD/FreeBSDdescription
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References
2- security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-21:13.bhyve.ascnvdVendor Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210923-0004/nvdThird Party Advisory
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