PT-2003-1694 · Ibm+1 · Ibm Jvm+1

Jeremy Rauch + 1 · Published 2003-07-25 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2003-0525

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Windows NT 4.0

Description: The issue is related to the getCanonicalPath function, which may free memory that it does not own, causing heap corruption. This can lead to a denial of service (crash) when requests with long file names are passed to getCanonicalPath. An example of this issue is demonstrated on the IBM JVM using a long string to the java.io.getCanonicalPath Java method.

Recommendations: For Windows NT 4.0, consider restricting the length of file names passed to the getCanonicalPath function to prevent heap corruption and denial of service attacks. As a temporary workaround, consider disabling the getCanonicalPath function until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2003-0525

Affected Products

Ibm Jvm

Windows Nt 4.0

References · 5

• http://atstake.com/research/advisories/2003/a072303-1.txt · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0525 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2003/ms03-029 · Vendor Advisory
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A319 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12701 · Note