Description (CNA)
A flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry (hive) file, which would cause hivex to recursively call the _get_children() function, leading to a stack overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| n/a / hivex | affected hivex-1.3.21 |
CWE
CWE-400
References
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/USD4OEV6L3RPHE32V2MJ4JPFBODINWSU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S35TVTAPHORSUIFYNFBHKLQRPVFUPXBE/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975489
- https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/771728218dac2fbf6997a7e53225e75a4c6b7255
- https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2021-August/msg00002.html
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/USD4OEV6L3RPHE32V2MJ4JPFBODINWSU/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S35TVTAPHORSUIFYNFBHKLQRPVFUPXBE/
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1975489
- https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/771728218dac2fbf6997a7e53225e75a4c6b7255
- https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2021-August/msg00002.html