[ CVE-2026-120740 · Published 2 Nov 2026 ]

Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVSS 2.0 EPSS <1%No fix listed yet

[ Description ]Official 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).

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.