CVE-2003-0525

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Windows

First reported 21 years ago

2003-08-27 04:00:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:32:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp1 server

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP1

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp2 server

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP2

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp3 server

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP3

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp4 server

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP4

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp5 server

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP5

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp6 server

4.0

Microsoft Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP6

4.0

Microsoft Windows 4.0 sp6a server

4.0

References

A072303-1

Vendor Advisory

MS03-029

winnt-file-management-dos(12701)

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:319

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