CVE-2012-4527
Published · Updated
3Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 7.7%
exploitation probability
7.7%top 5% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Stack-based buffer overflow in mcrypt 2.6.8 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers 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.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091173.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091206.htmlhttp://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091377.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00003.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867790http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/18/12http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/18/9http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56114