CVE-2012-4409

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.

Date published : 2012-11-21

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=855029

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-September/086519.html