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CVE-2003-0032

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Entered Topic
2003-10-25 Buffer overflows in libmcrypt

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Details

Type CVE Entry
Name CVE-2003-0032

Description

Memory leak in libmcrypt before 2.5.5 allows attackers 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.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20030103 Multiple libmcrypt vulnerabilities
BUGTRAQ 20030105 GLSA: libmcrypt
DEBIAN DSA-228
CONECTIVA CLA-2003:567
SUSE SuSE-SA:2003:0010
XF libmcrypt-libtool-memory-leak(10988)
BID 6512