CVE-2021-32845 (GCVE-0-2021-32845)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-17 00:00 – Updated: 2025-03-10 21:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Moby HyperKit uninitialized memory use vtrnd pci_vtrnd_notify
Summary
HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, the implementation of `qnotify` at `pci_vtrnd_notify` fails to check the return value of `vq_getchain`. This leads to `struct iovec iov;` being uninitialized and used to read memory in `len = (int) read(sc->vrsc_fd, iov.iov_base, iov.iov_len);` when an attacker is able to make `vq_getchain` fail. 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 41272a980197917df8e58ff90642d14dec8fe948.
Severity
7.7 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-10 20:57 UTC
CWE
- CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Assigner
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