CVE-2019-5609
mediumpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.013 · 70 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In FreeBSD 12.0-STABLE before r350619, 12.0-RELEASE before 12.0-RELEASE-p9, 11.3-STABLE before r350619, 11.3-RELEASE before 11.3-RELEASE-p2, and 11.2-RELEASE before 11.2-RELEASE-p13, the bhyve e1000 device emulation used a guest-provided value to determine the size of the on-stack buffer without validation when TCP segmentation offload is requested for a transmitted packet. A misbehaving bhyve guest could overwrite memory in the bhyve process on the host.
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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 · medium–high · 6.4–7.5
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affected products (6)
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references (12)
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- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5609cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153960/FreeBSD-Security-Advisory-FreeBSD-SA-19-21.bhyve.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:21.bhyve.asccnnvd
- https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:21.bhyve.asccnnvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190910-0002/cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/FreeBSD-memory-corruption-via-bhyve-e1000-29966cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.3032/cnnvd
- https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:21.bhyve.ascPatchcnnvd
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