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CVE-2003-0032

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
17/01/2003
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

Memory leak in libmcrypt before 2.5.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of requests to the application, which causes libmcrypt to dynamically load algorithms via libtool.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mcrypt:libmcrypt:2.5.1_r4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcrypt:libmcrypt:2.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcrypt:libmcrypt:2.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mcrypt:libmcrypt:2.5_.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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