High severity · published Feb 17, 2023
CVE-2021-32846
HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application
7.8
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 25% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
HY
Hyperkit · Mobyproject
through 0.20210107 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32846
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32846
Patch
https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/commit/af5eba2360a7351c08dfd9767d9be863a50ebaba
Patch
https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/pull/313
Third Party Advisory
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-054_057-moby-hyperkit/
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