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openSUSE Leap 15.2: 2021:1319-1 Moderate: HIVEX Stack Overflow

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Calendar Grey September 29, 2021
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This patch addresses a significant buffer overflow issue in libxyz, improving the overall security posture for Fedora users.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for hivex fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2021-3622: Fixed stack overflow due to recursive call of

_get_children() (bsc#1189060).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-1319=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

hivex-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

hivex-debuginfo-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

hivex-debugsource-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

hivex-devel-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

libhivex0-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

libhivex0-debuginfo-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

ocaml-hivex-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

ocaml-hivex-debuginfo-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

ocaml-hivex-devel-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

perl-Win-Hivex-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

perl-Win-Hivex-debuginfo-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

python-hivex-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

python-hivex-debuginfo-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

hivex-lang-1.3.14-lp152.4.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3622.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1189060

Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:1319-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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