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DescriptionRichard W.M. Jones
2011-11-03 11:05:32 UTC
Description of problem:
We previously rebased hivex in RHEL 6.1 (bug 642631). It is
likely to be a good idea to rebase again.
Note that the hivex library is API and ABI compatible upstream,
so there is no possibility of a regression from rebasing.
Here are some of the significant fixes we would get by rebasing:
- The syntax for deleting registry keys has been fixed so that
standard Microsoft format .reg files work correctly (bug 737944).
- hivexml output is now safe when the hive contains XML metacharacters.
- Fix 2 x segfaults in the OCaml bindings.
- Compat fixes for new Python versions.
- Fix for Perl 5.14.
- Ruby bindings have been added. Not clear if we would enable
these for RHEL, but it's a possibility.
- Extra APIs (backwards compatible) for getting last modified
timestamps of registry nodes, getting the physical offset of
hive data.
- Add --unsafe-printable-strings option. This is the requirement
for libguestfs rebase (bug 719879).
- Fixed endianness bugs which affect RHEL on non-x86-like platforms.
- Fix buggy Python-on-32-bit bindings (affects RHEL).
- Fix segfault in hivex_value_multiple_strings where it could read
uninitialized data or over the end of the file (affects RHEL).
- Handle incorrect UTF-16 data that could cause it to read an
uninitialized byte (affects RHEL).
- hivex_value_value returns real length of buffer instead of whatever
the file declares (affects RHEL, possible security issue).
- Fix use-after-free in hivex_close (affects RHEL).-
(For a complete list of changes, see
http://git.annexia.org/?p=hivex.git;a=log)
Comment 1Richard W.M. Jones
2011-11-03 14:38:06 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 734208 ***