{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-10-29T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "hivex: missing checks for small-sized files",
    "id" : "1167756",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1167756"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.4",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-120",
  "details" : [ "lib/handle.c in Hivex before 1.3.11 allows local users to execute arbitrary code and gain privileges via a small hive files, which triggers an out-of-bounds read or write.", "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." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Mahmoud Al-Qudsi (NeoSmart Technologies) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2015-07-20T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:1378",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "hivex-0:1.3.3-4.3.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2015-03-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2015:0301",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "hivex-0:1.3.10-5.7.el7"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9273\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9273" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-9273",
  "csaw" : false
}