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CentOS 7 : hivex (RHSA-2021:3338)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 152971

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Synopsis

The remote CentOS Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3338 advisory.

 - 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. (CVE-2021-3622)

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 affected packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3338

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 152971

File Name: centos_RHSA-2021-3338.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/2/2021

Updated: 10/9/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3622

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/31/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3622

RHSA: 2021:3338