CVE-2019-5604
highpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.031 · 88 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r350246, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p8, 11.3-STABLE before r350247, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p1, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p12, the emulated XHCI device included with the bhyve hypervisor did not properly validate data provided by the guest, allowing an out-of-bounds read. This provides a malicious guest the possibility to crash the system or access system memory.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 8.5–9.6
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affected products (7)
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also known as (3)
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references (17)
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- http://bhyve.orgcnnvd
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153753/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-16.bhyve.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5604cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153753/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-16.bhyve.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:16.bhyve.asccnnvd
- https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:16.bhyve.asccnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190814-0003/cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/FreeBSD-out-of-bounds-memory-reading-via-bhyve-pci-xhci-device-doorbell-29878cnnvd
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