CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-32843
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-02-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.2 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, `virtio.c` has is a call to `vc_cfgread` that does not check for null which when called makes the host crash. This issue may lead to a guest crashing the host causing a denial of service. This issue is fixed in commit df0e46c7dbfd81a957d85e449ba41b52f6f7beb4.
Affected configurations
• mobyproject hyperkit (<= 0.20210107)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/commit/df0e46c7dbfd81a957d85e449ba41b52f6f7beb4 Patch
- https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/pull/313 Patch
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-054_057-moby-hyperkit/ Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/commit/df0e46c7dbfd81a957d85e449ba41b52f6f7beb4 Patch
- https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/pull/313 Patch
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-054_057-moby-hyperkit/ Third Party Advisory