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CVSS v3.1
N/A
EPSS
15.14%
Published
Nov 21, 2012
Modified
Apr 28, 2026
Public PoC / Exploit (3)
All weaponized →Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the check_file_head function in extra.c in mcrypt 2.6.8 and earlier allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an encrypted file with a crafted header containing long salt data that is not properly handled during decryption.
Weaknesses (CWE)
Affected Products (5)
References (18)