openSUSE Security Update : mcrypt (openSUSE-SU-2012:1440-1)

Some potential mcrypt buffer overflows in the commandline tool were fixed, which could lead to early aborts of mcrypt. Due to FORTIFYSOURCE catching such cases, it would have only aborted mcrypt with a buffer overflow backtrace. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive...

MCrypt: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code

Background MCrypt is a replacement of the old unix crypt1 utility. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MCrypt: A boundary error in MCrypt could cause a stack-based buffer overflow CVE-2012-4409. MCrypt contains multiple format string errors CVE-2012-4426. MCrypt does not...

CVE-2012-4527

CVE-2012-4527: MCrypt (mcrypt) up to version 2.6.8 is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow when handling long file names, enabling a user-assisted remote attacker to crash the process or potentially execute arbitrary code. The issue is documented across multiple advisories (Gentoo GLSA 20140...

Fedora Update for mcrypt FEDORA-2012-17290

Check for the Version of mcrypt OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for mcrypt FEDORA-2012-17290 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Fedora Update for mcrypt FEDORA-2012-17318

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Fedora 17 : mcrypt-2.6.8-10.fc17 (2012-17290)

Apply workaround for CVE-2012-4527. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...

Fedora 16 : mcrypt-2.6.8-10.fc16 (2012-17318)

Apply workaround for CVE-2012-4527. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 7030...