CVE-2021-3622

Summary

CVECVE-2021-3622
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-23 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:38:00 UTC
DescriptionA flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry (hive) file, which would cause hivex to recursively call the _get_children() function, leading to a stack overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 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
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Hivex All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: hivex-1.3.21-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: hivex-1.3.21-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: hivex-1.3.21-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: hivex-1.3.21-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[Libguestfs] [PATCH hivex] lib/node.c: Limit recursion in ri-records (CV MISC listman.redhat.com
1975489 – (CVE-2021-3622) CVE-2021-3622 hivex: stack overflow due to recursive call of _get_children() MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
lib/node.c: Limit recursion in ri-records (CVE-2021-3622) · libguestfs/hivex@7717282 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159377 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (ELSA-2021-3338)
  • 159858 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:ol (ELSA-2022-1759)
  • 183087 Debian Security Update for hivex (CVE-2021-3622)
  • 239600 Red Hat Update for hivex (RHSA-2021:3338)
  • 240292 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security (RHSA-2022:1759)
  • 257110 CentOS Security Update for hivex Security Update (CESA-2021:3338)
  • 281830 Fedora Security Update for hivex (FEDORA-2021-775b170f95)
  • 281831 Fedora Security Update for hivex (FEDORA-2021-372d83d54e)
  • 352870 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for hivex: ALAS2-2021-1717
  • 377453 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for hivex (ALINUX2-SA-2021:0055)
  • 670988 EulerOS Security Update for hivex (EulerOS-SA-2021-2635)
  • 671007 EulerOS Security Update for hivex (EulerOS-SA-2021-2585)
  • 671039 EulerOS Security Update for hivex (EulerOS-SA-2021-2662)
  • 751166 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for hivex (SUSE-SU-2021:3210-1)
  • 751175 OpenSUSE Security Update for hivex (openSUSE-SU-2021:3201-1)
  • 751186 OpenSUSE Security Update for hivex (openSUSE-SU-2021:1319-1)
  • 901684 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for hivex (7096)
  • 902302 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for hivex (7096-1)
  • 940525 AlmaLinux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALSA-2022:1759)
  • 960314 Rocky Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RLSA-2022:1759)
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