Description
The xHCI (USB 3) device model did not validate or save the event ring size provided by the guest. The size was re-read from guest memory on each use, and Transfer Request Block (TRB) fields were loaded without protection against concurrent modification by the guest. This race condition could be triggered by a guest running malicious, privileged code.
A malicious guest can crash the bhyve process or potentially execute arbitrary code in the host userspace context running the virtual machine, subject to bhyve's Capsicum sandbox.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD | FreeBSD | 15.1-RELEASE – < p5, 14.5-RELEASE – < p2, 14.4-RELEASE – < p11 | p5 |
Advisories 2
- WID-SEC-2026-3967 FreeBSD Project FreeBSD OS: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Nov 8, 2026
- NCSC-2026-0452 Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in FreeBSD bhyve hypervisor NCSC-NL (Netherlands) · Oct 22, 2026