Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2012-4426 to the following vulnerability: Name: CVE-2012-4426 URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4426 Assigned: 20120821 Reference: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/06/8 Reference: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/06/9 Reference: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/10/5 Reference: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/13/22 Multiple format string vulnerabilities in mcrypt 2.6.8 and earlier might allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving (1) errors.c or (2) mcrypt.c
The suggested patch is here: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/06/8
Created mcrypt tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 879108] Affects: epel-all [bug 879109]
there is a typo in the summary s/mcypt/mcrypt
We've had this fixed in Fedora and EPEL since 2.6.7, thanks to Pavol Rusnak: http://sourceforge.net/p/mcrypt/patches/6/ So, this issue does not affect us, I'll close out all these bugs.