RHEL 7 : hivex (RHSA-2021:2318)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 150376

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for hivex.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2318 advisory.

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL hivex package based on the guidance in RHSA-2021:2318.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3dbcf636

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2318

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949687

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 150376

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-2318.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/9/2021

Updated: 11/8/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.5

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3504

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hivex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-hivex, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ocaml-hivex-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ruby-hivex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-hivex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-hivex

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3504

CWE: 125

RHSA: 2021:2318