RHSA-2021:2318: Red Hat Security Advisory: hivex security update

An update for hivex is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.Hivex is a library that can read and write Hive files, undocumented binary files that Windows uses to store the Windows Registry on disk. Security Fix(es):

• hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length (CVE-2021-3504) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2021-3504: hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length