RHSA-2021:3338 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: hivex security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 31, 2021

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for hivex is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: stack overflow due to recursive call of _get_children() (CVE-2021-3622)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2021:3338 — Red Hat Security Advisory: hivex security update | PulseLinux