CVE-2021-32846

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-32846
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-32846.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2021-32846
Published
2023-02-17T23:15:12Z
Modified
2026-05-17T11:55:17Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages