CVE-2014-9273

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2014-10-29
CWE:
CWE-120
Bugzilla:
1167756: CVE-2014-9273 hivex: missing checks for small-sized files
It was found that hivex attempted to read, and possibly write, beyond its allocated buffer when reading a hive file with a very small size or with a truncated or improperly formatted content. An attacker able to supply a specially crafted hive file to an application using the hivex library could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.4
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (hivex) RHSA-2015:1378 2015-07-20
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (hivex) RHSA-2015:0301 2015-03-05

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank Mahmoud Al-Qudsi of NeoSmart Technologies for reporting this issue.

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