CVE-2012-4527 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091173.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091206.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/091377.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00003.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/18/12 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/18/9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/20/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56114 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867790