MiracleLinux 4 : hivex-1.3.3-4.3.AXS4 (AXSA:2015-405:01)

high Nessus Plugin ID 291516

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2015-405:01 advisory.

Hive files are the undocumented binary blobs that Windows uses to store the Windows Registry on disk. Hivex is a library that can read and write to these files.
'hivexsh' is a shell you can use to interactively navigate a hive binary file.
'hivexregedit' lets you export and merge to the textual regedit format.
'hivexml' can be used to convert a hive file to a more useful XML format.
In order to get access to the hive files themselves, you can copy them from a Windows machine. They are usually found in %systemroot%\system32\config. For virtual machines we recommend using libguestfs or guestfish to copy out these files. libguestfs also provides a useful high-level tool called 'virt-win-reg' (based on hivex technology) which can be used to query specific registry keys in an existing Windows VM.
For OCaml bindings, see 'ocaml-hivex-devel'.
For Perl bindings, see 'perl-hivex'.
For Python bindings, see 'python-hivex'.
Security issues fixed with this release:
CVE-2014-9273 Fixed bugs:
* The hivex(3) man page previously contained a typographical error. This update fixes the typo.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected hivex and / or perl-hivex packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 291516

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2015-405.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/19/2026

Updated: 1/19/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-9273

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-hivex, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:hivex, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-9273

Detections

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