CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-8178

Missing Initialization of Resource

Published: Sep 05, 2024 | Modified: Sep 06, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not initialize a critical resource.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Freebsd Freebsd 13.0 (including) 13.3 (excluding)
Freebsd Freebsd 13.3 (including) 13.3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 13.3-p1 (including) 13.3-p1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 13.3-p2 (including) 13.3-p2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 13.3-p3 (including) 13.3-p3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 13.3-p4 (including) 13.3-p4 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 13.3-p5 (including) 13.3-p5 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 13.4-beta3 (including) 13.4-beta3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0 (including) 14.0 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-beta5 (including) 14.0-beta5 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p1 (including) 14.0-p1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p2 (including) 14.0-p2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p3 (including) 14.0-p3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p4 (including) 14.0-p4 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p5 (including) 14.0-p5 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p6 (including) 14.0-p6 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p7 (including) 14.0-p7 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p8 (including) 14.0-p8 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-p9 (including) 14.0-p9 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-rc3 (including) 14.0-rc3 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.0-rc4-p1 (including) 14.0-rc4-p1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.1 (including) 14.1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.1-p1 (including) 14.1-p1 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.1-p2 (including) 14.1-p2 (including)
Freebsd Freebsd 14.1-p3 (including) 14.1-p3 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References