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CVE-2024-41928

bhyve(8) privileged guest escape via TPM device passthrough



Assignerfreebsd
Reserved2024-08-27
Published2024-09-05
Updated2024-09-06

Description

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.

Problem types

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-1285 Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input

Product status

Default status
0x40033b53f0

14.1-RELEASE before p4
affected

14.0-RELEASE before p10
affected

Credits

Synacktiv 0x40033b5470

The FreeBSD Foundation 0x40033b5480

The Alpha-Omega Project 0x40033b5490

References

https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:10.bhyve.asc vendor-advisory

cve.org CVE-2024-41928

nvd.nist.gov CVE-2024-41928

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