Synopsis:          Moderate: hivex security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID:       SLSA-2015:0301-2
Issue Date:        2015-03-05
CVE Numbers:       CVE-2014-9273
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It was found that hivex attempted to read 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. (CVE-2014-9273)

The hivex package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.3.10, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.

This update also fixes the following bugs:

* Due to an error in the hivex_value_data_cell_offset() function, the
hivex utility could, in some cases, print an "Argument list is too long"
message and terminate unexpectedly when processing hive files from the
Windows Registry. This update fixes the underlying code and hivex now
processes hive files as expected.

* A typographical error in the Win::Hivex.3pm manual page has been
corrected.
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SL7
  x86_64
    hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.i686.rpm
    hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm
    hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-5.7.el7.i686.rpm
    hivex-debuginfo-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm
    perl-hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm
    hivex-devel-1.3.10-5.7.el7.i686.rpm
    hivex-devel-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm
    ocaml-hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm
    ocaml-hivex-devel-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm
    python-hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm
    ruby-hivex-1.3.10-5.7.el7.x86_64.rpm

- Scientific Linux Development Team