Hive files are the undocumented binary files 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' (in perl-hivex) 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 3 bindings, see 'python3-hivex'.
For Ruby bindings, see 'ruby-hivex'.
* Wed Mar 15 2023 MSVSphere Packaging Team <packager@msvsphere.ru> - 1.3.21-3
- Rebuilt for MSVSphere 9.1.
* Tue Sep 14 2021 Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> - 1.3.21-3
- Bring key collation order closer to that of Windows.
- Resolves: RHBZ#1648524.
* Mon Aug 09 2021 Mohan Boddu <mboddu@redhat.com> - 1.3.21-2
- Rebuilt for IMA sigs, glibc 2.34, aarch64 flags
Related: rhbz#1991688
* Mon Aug 02 2021 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.3.21-1
- New upstream version 1.3.21.
- Fixes CVE-2021-3622 limit recursion in ri-records.
* Wed Jun 23 2021 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.3.20-7
- Bump and rebuild
resolves: rhbz#1975314
* Fri Jun 11 2021 Matt Coleman <matt@datto.com> - 1.3.20-6
- Move the library into a separate package: hivex-libs
* Fri Jun 11 2021 Matt Coleman <matt@datto.com> - 1.3.20-5
- Mark LICENSE as a license file
* Wed Jun 02 2021 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.3.20-3
- Add gating tests (for RHEL 9)
* Mon May 03 2021 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.3.20-1
- New upstream version 1.3.20.
- Fixes CVE-2021-3504 missing bounds check in hivex_open.
* Tue Mar 30 2021 Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> - 1.3.19-10
- Bump and rebuild for ELN.
