CVE-2021-3622 (GCVE-0-2021-3622)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-12-23 20:31
Modified
2024-08-03 17:01
Severity ?
CWE
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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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a hivex Version: hivex-1.3.21
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