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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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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Status : Deferred
Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193
Link: CVE-2003-0525

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