7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2003-0031

Published: 17/01/2003 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Multiple buffer overflows in libmcrypt prior to 2.5.5 allow malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash).

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Vendor Advisories

Ilia Alshanetsky discovered several buffer overflows in libmcrypt, a decryption and encryption library, that originates from improper or lacking input validation By passing input which is longer than expected to a number of functions (multiple functions are affected) the user can successfully make libmcrypt crash and may be able to insert arbitrar ...