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GHSA-9QXR-9QR6-7X7W

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-09-05 06:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:31

Details

The ctl_write_buffer and ctl_read_buffer functions allocated memory to be returned to userspace, without initializing it.

Malicious software running in a guest VM that exposes virtio_scsi can exploit the vulnerabilities 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. A malicious iSCSI initiator could achieve remote code execution on the iSCSI target host.

Severity ?

8.8 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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  "id": "GHSA-9qxr-9qr6-7x7w",
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CVE-2024-8178 (GCVE-0-2024-8178)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-05 04:31 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:15

Summary

The ctl_write_buffer and ctl_read_buffer functions allocated memory to be returned to userspace, without initializing it. Malicious software running in a guest VM that exposes virtio_scsi can exploit the vulnerabilities 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. A malicious iSCSI initiator could achieve remote code execution on the iSCSI target host.

Severity ?

9.3 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
CWE-909 - Missing Initialization of Resource

Assigner

freebsd

References

URL

Tags

https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-S…

vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	FreeBSD	FreeBSD	Affected: 14.1-RELEASE , < p4 (release) Affected: 14.0-RELEASE , < p10 (release) Affected: 13.3-RELEASE , < p6 (release)

Credits

Synacktiv The FreeBSD Foundation The Alpha-Omega Project

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CVE-2024-8178 (GCVE-0-2024-8178)

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