description: A flaw was found in the hivex library. This flaw allows an attacker to input a specially crafted Windows Registry (hive) file, which would cause hivex to recursively call the _get_children() function, leading to a stack overflow. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
problem types: CWE-400
affected:
{
product: hivex
vendor: n/a
versions:
status: affected, version: hivex-1.3.21
}