CVE-2003-0525 (GCVE-0-2003-0525)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2003-07-25 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:58
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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