CVE-2003-0525 Information

Description

The getCanonicalPath function in Windows NT 4.0 may free memory that it does not own and cause heap corruption which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via requests that cause a long file name to be passed to getCanonicalPath as demonstrated on the IBM JVM using a long string to the java.io.getCanonicalPath Java method.

Reference

http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a072303-1.txt https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-029 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12701 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A319