CVE-2021-3504

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3504
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-11 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All
Application Libguestfs Hivex All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Redhat Hivex All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: hivex-1.3.20-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: hivex-1.3.20-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: hivex-1.3.20-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2656-1] hivex security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: hivex-1.3.20-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
1949687 – (CVE-2021-3504) CVE-2021-3504 hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159259 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (ELSA-2021-2318)
  • 159343 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2021-3061)
  • 178589 Debian Security Update for hivex (DLA 2656-1)
  • 178615 Debian Security Update for hivex (DSA 4913-1)
  • 178630 Debian Security Update for hivex (DSA 4913-1)
  • 180238 Debian Security Update for hivex (CVE-2021-3504)
  • 198572 Ubuntu Security Notification for hivex Vulnerability (USN-5148-1)
  • 239402 Red Hat Update for hivex (RHSA-2021:2318)
  • 239539 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2021:3061)
  • 257089 CentOS Security Update for hivex (CESA-2021:2318)
  • 281208 Fedora Security Update for hivex (FEDORA-2021-da76643229)
  • 281209 Fedora Security Update for hivex (FEDORA-2021-b71cc4df92)
  • 352398 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for hivex: ALAS2-2021-1658
  • 377227 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for hivex (ALINUX2-SA-2021:0034)
  • 377346 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALINUX3-SA-2021:0058)
  • 501580 Alpine Linux Security Update for hivex
  • 501866 Alpine Linux Security Update for hivex
  • 670539 EulerOS Security Update for hivex (EulerOS-SA-2021-2297)
  • 670574 EulerOS Security Update for hivex (EulerOS-SA-2021-2332)
  • 670622 EulerOS Security Update for hivex (EulerOS-SA-2021-2380)
  • 750035 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (SUSE-SU-2021:1761-1)
  • 750036 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (SUSE-SU-2021:1760-1)
  • 750041 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (SUSE-SU-2021:1761-1)
  • 750042 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (SUSE-SU-2021:1760-1)
  • 750073 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (SUSE-SU-2021:1761-1)
  • 750187 OpenSUSE Security Update for hivex (openSUSE-SU-2021:0806-1)
  • 750761 OpenSUSE Security Update for hivex (openSUSE-SU-2021:1761-1)
  • 901206 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for hivex (6472)
  • 902325 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for hivex (6472-1)
  • 940064 AlmaLinux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALSA-2021:3061)
  • 960072 Rocky Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RLSA-2021:3061)
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