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National Vulnerability Database

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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-8178

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 9/05/2024 1:15:13 AM

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FreeBSD CWE-908

								
								
					

					

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FreeBSD CWE-909

								
								
					

					

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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.

								
								
					

					

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FreeBSD https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:11.ctl.asc [No types assigned]