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Medium ALAS2-2021-1658 1 CVE

Moderate: hivex security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 16, 2021 · Updated Jun 22, 2021

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-3504: A flaw was found in the hivex library. 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. 1949687: CVE-2021-3504 hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length

Fixed packages 8

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 hivex 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 hivex-debuginfo 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 hivex-devel 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ocaml-hivex 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ocaml-hivex-devel 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 perl-hivex 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 python-hivex 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 ruby-hivex 0:1.3.10-6.11.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2021-3504.html