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CVE-2012-4409 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (mcrypt), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.
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.