CVE-2021-3504

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 11, 2021
Updated: Aug 3, 2024
Reserved: Apr 16, 2021

Description

A flaw was found in the hivex library in versions before 1.3.20. It is caused due to a lack of bounds check within the hivex_open function. An attacker could input a specially crafted Windows Registry (hive) file which would cause hivex to read memory beyond its normal bounds or cause the program to crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected Products

Product	Versions
hivexn/a	hivex-1.3.20Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949687
[debian-lts-announce] 20210511 [SECURITY] [DLA 2656-1] hivex security updatemailing-list
FEDORA-2021-b71cc4df92vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-da76643229vendor-advisory

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