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Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2014 13:30:33 -0500 (EST)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: missing checks for small-sized files
in hivex
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> It was reported that hivex [1], a library that can read and write
> hive files (undocumented binary files that Windows uses to store the
> Windows Registry on disk), did not properly handle small-sized hive
> files. An attacker able to supply a hive file of a small size to an
> application using the hivex library could use this flaw to read, and
> possibly write, up to 4095 bytes beyond the end of the allocated
> buffer, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution with the
> with the privileges of the user running that application.
Use CVE-2014-9273.
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CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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