A flaw was found in hivex. By supplying a specially crafted Windows registry hive file, an attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read when hivex parses registry values containing malformed large data block lists. This issue can cause the application processing the registry file to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
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Tue, 03 Nov 2026 02:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Red Hat
Red Hat enterprise Linux
Vendors & Products Red Hat
Red Hat enterprise Linux

Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:30:00 +0000

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threat_severity

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Mon, 02 Nov 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in hivex. By supplying a specially crafted Windows registry hive file, an attacker can trigger an out-of-bounds memory read when hivex parses registry values containing malformed large data block lists. This issue can cause the application processing the registry file to crash, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
Title Hivex: hivex: denial of service via out-of-bounds read in big-data block processing
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Weaknesses CWE-125
CPEs cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8
cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-02T22:15:26.318Z

Reserved: 2026-11-02T20:44:20.600Z

Link: CVE-2026-120740

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-11-02T22:17:21.313

Modified: 2026-11-02T22:17:21.443

Link: CVE-2026-120740

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2026-11-01T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-120740 - Bugzilla

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-03T01:45:09Z

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