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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3622: Security patch for hivex (ALAS-2021-1717)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2021-3622: Security patch for hivex (ALAS-2021-1717)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/05/2021
Created
11/06/2021
Added
11/05/2021
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

A 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.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-hivex
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-hivex-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-hivex-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ocaml-hivex
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ocaml-hivex-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-perl-hivex
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-python-hivex
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-ruby-hivex

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