ubuntu · CVE-2012-4527

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Priority: medium Published: 2012-11-21 23:55:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-04 19:24:16 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2012-4527 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mcrypt), 19 status rows across 19 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, hardy, lucid, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 14, not-affected 3, DNE 1, released 1.

Description:

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.

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