CVE-2021-3622

Publication date

2021-12-23 20:31:25

Family

redhat

State

PUBLISHED

Description

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.