Published: 21/11/2012 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.8 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 8.6

VMScore: 605

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Stack-based buffer overflow in mcrypt 2.6.8 and previous versions allows user-assisted remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long file name. NOTE: it is not clear whether this is a vulnerability.

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Debian Bug report logs - #690924 mcrypt: CVE-2012-4527 Package: mcrypt; Maintainer for mcrypt is Debian QA Group <packages@qadebianorg>; Source for mcrypt is src:mcrypt (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutilorg> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:57:07 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch, security ...

CWE-119 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091173.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/18/12 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867790 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/18/9 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091377.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00003.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/1 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091206.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56114 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690924 https://nvd.nist.gov

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