CVE-2014-9273
hivex: missing checks for small-sized files
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · October 29, 2014
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
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.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 4.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')