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nvd[email protected]NVD:CVE-2021-32846
HistoryFeb 17, 2023 - 11:15 p.m.

CVE-2021-32846

2023-02-1723:15:12
CWE-754
CWE-908
web.nvd.nist.gov
hyperkit
denial of service
memory corruption
uninitialized memory
cve-2021-32846

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107, function pci_vtsock_proc_tx in virtio-sock can lead to to uninitialized memory use. In this situation, there is a check for the return value to be less or equal to VTSOCK_MAXSEGS, but that check is not sufficient because the function can return -1 if it finds an error it cannot recover from. Moreover, the negative return value will be used by iovec_pull in a while condition that can further lead to more corruption because the function is not designed to handle a negative iov_len. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service and, under certain circumstance, memory corruption. This issue is fixed in commit af5eba2360a7351c08dfd9767d9be863a50ebaba.

Affected configurations

NVD
Node
mobyprojecthyperkitRange0.20210107

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

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