CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-0525
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-08-27
- 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
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.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows nt 4.0
References
- http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a072303-1.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-029 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12701 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A319 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a072303-1.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-029 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12701 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A319 oval.cisecurity.org