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Red Hat: RHSA-2021-3338-01 Low Severity: Hivex Stack Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 31, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The recent update for hivex tackles various low security concerns present in Red Hat RHEL 7, thereby fortifying system integrity with negligible disruption.
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: stack overflow due to recursive call of _get_children() (CVE-2021-3622)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update low severity red hat enterprise stack overflow hivex

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3622 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm perl-hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
x86_64: hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ocaml-hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ocaml-hivex-devel-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm python-hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm ruby-hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.src.rpm
ppc64le: hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm perl-hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.s390.rpm hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.s390x.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.s390.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.s390x.rpm perl-hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.i686.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-6.12.el7_9.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3338-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3338
Issue date: 2021-08-31

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 Low. 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 security update low severity red hat enterprise stack overflow 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

1975489 - CVE-2021-3622 hivex: stack overflow due to recursive call of _get_children()

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