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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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2003-07-25T04:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-12T19:57:01
Reserved: 2003-07-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2003-0525
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2003-08-27T04:00:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-12T21:32:46.210
Link: CVE-2003-0525
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