Medium severity6.2NVD Advisory· Published Feb 17, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-32843
CVE-2021-32843
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <=0.20210107
- moby/hyperkitv5Range: 0.20210107
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