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CVE-2002-0703

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2002-07-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

An interaction between the Perl MD5 module (perl-Digest-MD5) and Perl could produce incorrect MD5 checksums for UTF-8 data, which could prevent a system from properly verifying the integrity of the data.

Affected products

• Gisle Aas Digest-Md5: 2.16, 2.17, 2.18, 2.19

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-081.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9051.php
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-035.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4716
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-081.html
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/9051.php
• http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-035.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4716

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