CVE-2021-3622 (GCVE-0-2021-3622)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-12-23 20:31 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:01
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Summary
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.
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n/a hivex Affected: hivex-1.3.21
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