CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0032

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-01-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-01-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• mcrypt libmcrypt 2.5.1 r4 • mcrypt libmcrypt 2.5.2 • mcrypt libmcrypt 2.5.3 • mcrypt libmcrypt 2.5 .0

References