Security Advisory

CVE-2012-4409

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-11-21 23:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 20:35:09

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the check_file_head function in extra.c in mcrypt 2.6.8 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an encrypted file with a crafted header containing long salt data that is not properly handled during decryption.

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