ArchLinux: 202105-28: hivex: denial of service
Summary
A security issue was found in the hivex library before version 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.
Resolution
Upgrade to 1.3.20-1.
# pacman -Syu "hivex>=1.3.20-1"
The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.3.20.
References
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949687 https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/8f1935733b10d974a1a4176d38dd151ed98cf381 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2021-3504
Workaround
None.