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CVE-2012-4527
Stack-based buffer overflow in mcrypt 2.6.8 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and…
Medium6.8EPSS 7.7%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.7% · top 5.3% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- FEDORA-2012-17290 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1440 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-17318 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2012-17339 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 56114 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121018 Re: CVE Request -- mcrypt: stack-based buffer overflow by encryption / decryption of overly long file names (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121119 Re: CVE Request -- mcrypt: stack-based buffer overflow by encryption / decryption of overly long file names (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20121018 CVE Request -- mcrypt: stack-based buffer overflow by encryption / decryption of overly long file names (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=867790 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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