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CVE-2021-32844
medium
Description
HyperKit is a toolkit for embedding hypervisor capabilities in an application. In versions 0.20210107 and prior of HyperKit, ` vi_pci_write` has is a call to `vc_cfgwrite` 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 451558fe8aaa8b24e02e34106e3bb9fe41d7ad13.
References
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-054_057-moby-hyperkit/
https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/pull/313
https://github.com/moby/hyperkit/commit/451558fe8aaa8b24e02e34106e3bb9fe41d7ad13