DSA-4913-1 hivex -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4913-1 hivex -- security update

Date Reported:

10 May 2021

Affected Packages:

hivex

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 988024.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-3504.

More information:

Jeremy Galindo discovered an out-of-bounds memory access in Hivex, a library to parse Windows Registry hive files.

For the stable distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.18-1+deb10u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your hivex packages.

For the detailed security status of hivex please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/hivex