CVE-2014-9273

CVE Details

Release Date:2014-10-29

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.

See more information about CVE-2014-9273 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD


CVSS v2.0 metrics


NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score: 4.4 Base Metrics: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector: Local network Attack Complexity: Medium
Authentication: None required Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial Availability Impact: Partial

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 6 (hivex)ELSA-2015-13782015-07-28
Oracle Linux version 7 (hivex)ELSA-2015-03012015-03-09



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