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FreeBSD-SA-16:38.bhyve Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: bhyve(8) virtual machine escape
Category: core
Module: bhyve
Announced: 2016-12-06
Credits: Felix Wilhelm
Affects: FreeBSD 10.x, FreeBSD 11.0
Corrected: 2016-12-06 18:54:43 UTC (stable/11, 11.0-STABLE)
2016-12-06 18:49:38 UTC (releng/11.0, 11.0-RELEASE-p4)
2016-12-06 18:55:01 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE)
2016-12-06 18:49:48 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p13)
2016-12-06 18:49:54 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RELEASE-p26)
2016-12-06 18:49:59 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p43)
CVE Name: CVE-2016-1889
For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
bhyve(8) is a hypervisor that supports running a variety of virtual
machines (guests).
II. Problem Description
The bounds checking of accesses to guest memory greater than 4GB by
device emulations is subject to integer overflow.
III. Impact
For a bhyve virtual machine with more than 3GB of guest memory configured,
a malicious guest could craft device descriptors that could give it access
to the heap of the bhyve process. Since the bhyve process is running as root,
this may allow guests to obtain full control of the hosts they're running on.
IV. Workaround
No workaround is available, however, systems not using bhyve(8) for
virtualization are not vulnerable. Additionally, systems using bhyve(8) with
3GB or less of configured guest memory are not vulnerable.
V. Solution
Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date.
No reboot is needed. Rather the bhyve(8) process for vulnerable virtual
machines should be restarted.
Perform one of the following:
1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date.
2) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch:
Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the amd64
platform can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility:
# freebsd-update fetch
# freebsd-update install
3) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:
The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable
FreeBSD release branches.
a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the
detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.
[FreeBSD 11.0, FreeBSD 10.3]
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:38/bhyve.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:38/bhyve.patch.asc
# gpg --verify bhyve.patch.asc
[FreeBSD 10.2, FreeBSD 10.1]
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:38/bhyve-10.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-16:38/bhyve-10.patch.asc
# gpg --verify bhyve-10.patch.asc
b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:
# cd /usr/src
# patch < /path/to/patch
Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as
described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>.
VI. Correction details
The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each
affected branch.
Branch/path Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/10/ r309648
releng/10.1/ r309636
releng/10.2/ r309635
releng/10.3/ r309634
stable/11/ r309647
releng/11.0/ r309633
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the
following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a
machine with Subversion installed:
# svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base
Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:
<URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN>
VII. References
<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1889>
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-16:38.bhyve.asc>
