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CVE-2003-0032

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-01-17 · updated 2026-06-16

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 products

• Mcrypt Libmcrypt: 2.5.1_r4, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5_.0

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000567
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104162752401212&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104188513728573&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-228
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10988.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6512
• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000567
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104162752401212&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104188513728573&w=2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-228
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10988.php
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6512

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