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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published: 2021-12-23T20:31:25

Updated: 2024-08-03T17:01:07.599Z

Reserved: 2021-06-25T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-3622

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-12-23T21:15:08.970

Modified: 2023-11-07T03:38:09.780

Link: CVE-2021-3622

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2021-08-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-3622 - Bugzilla