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CVSSv2

CVE-2003-0032

Published: 17/01/2003 Updated: 18/10/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Memory leak in libmcrypt prior to 2.5.5 allows malicious users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of requests to the application, which causes libmcrypt to dynamically load algorithms via libtool.

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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 ...