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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-3622: hivex security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-3622: hivex security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/25/2021
Created
10/28/2021
Added
10/26/2021
Modified
01/12/2022

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)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-hivex
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp3-upgrade-perl-hivex

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