CVE-2012-4409

Publication date

2012-11-21 23:00:00

Family

redhat

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.