CVE-2021-32846
Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use in virtio-sock pci_vtsock_proc_tx
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.7 High
- Published
- Feb 17, 2023
- Updated
- Mar 10, 2025
- Reserved
- May 12, 2021
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.7 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
hyperkitmoby |
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References
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