State Issues in FreeBSD - CVE-2023-3494
Published: August 2, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU78875
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3494
CWE-ID: CWE-371
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows an attacker to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the state machine implementation within the bhyve fwctl driver, which is executed when a bhyve guest accesses certain x86 I/O ports. A malicious, privileged software running in a guest VM can exploit the state issue to trigger buffer overflow and achieve code execution on the host in the bhyve
userspace process.
Affected software
FreeBSD
How to mitigate CVE-2023-3494
Install updates from vendor's website.