RHSA-2021:3338 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: hivex security update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
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.