CVE Catalog

CVE-2016-1889

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Integer overflow in the bhyve hypervisor in FreeBSD 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0 when configured with a large amount of guest memory allows local users to gain privilege via a crafted device descriptor.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation by local users, posing a serious security threat to the system.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update FreeBSD to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability and restrict access to the hypervisor only to trusted users.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Integer overflow in the bhyve hypervisor in FreeBSD 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, and 11.0 when configured with a large amount of guest memory, allows local users to gain privilege via a crafted device descriptor.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS