CVE-2021-3622

Name	CVE-2021-3622
Description	A flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry (hive) file, which would cause hivex to recursively call the _get_children() function, leading to a stack overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	991860

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
hivex (PTS)	bullseye	1.3.20-1	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.3.23-1	fixed
	forky, sid, trixie	1.3.24-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
hivex	source	(unstable)	1.3.21-1			991860

Notes

[bullseye] - hivex <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - hivex <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - hivex <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2021-August/msg00002.html
https://github.com/libguestfs/hivex/commit/771728218dac2fbf6997a7e53225e75a4c6b7255