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Ubuntu: USN-5192-1 Moderate: hivex Buffer Overflow in 2021

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
SUSE has released a Critical vulnerability patch for strace, fixing a memory corruption flaw. Immediate upgrade advised.
An update for hivex is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Hivex is a library that can read and write Hive files, undocumented binary files that Windows uses to store the Windows Registry on disk.
Security Fix(es):
* hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length (CVE-2021-3504)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update buffer overflow red hat hivex

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3504 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm perl-hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ocaml-hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ocaml-hivex-devel-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm python-hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ruby-hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.src.rpm
ppc64le: hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm perl-hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.s390.rpm hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.s390x.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.s390.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.s390x.rpm perl-hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.11.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2318-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2318
Issue date: 2021-06-08

Topic

An update for hivex is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security issue update buffer overflow red hat hivex

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1949687 - CVE-2021-3504 hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length

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