CVE-2021-32846CWE-908

Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use in virtio-sock pci_vtsock_proc_tx

High · published February 17, 2023

CVSS v3.1
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
23.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00317 · 23.4th percentile
Weakness
CWE-908 · Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2023-02-17T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 FEB 00:00Z
    Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use in virtio-sock pci_vtsock_proc_tx
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