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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2003-0519 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:58:10.991Z

Reserved: 2003-07-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2003-0525

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2003-0525

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