vulnerability

Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-3504: hivex security update

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
May 11, 2021
Added
Sep 16, 2021
Modified
Apr 1, 2026

Description

A 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.

Solutions

huawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-hivexhuawei-euleros-2_0_sp2-upgrade-perl-hivex
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