Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-32846
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 7.8%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.7
Products affected by CVE-2021-32846
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:-
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20170214
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20170227
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20170425
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20170511
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20170519
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20170904
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20171020
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20171204
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20180123
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20180223
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20180403
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20180621
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20190201
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20190802
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20200224
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20200908
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cpe:2.3:a:mobyproject:hyperkit:0.20210107