Memory leak in libmcrypt before 2.5.5 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) via a large number of requests to the application, which causes libmcrypt to dynamically load algorithms via libtool.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| mcrypt / libmcrypt | 2.5.1_r4 | 2.5.1_r4.x |
| mcrypt / libmcrypt | 2.5.2 | 2.5.2.x |
| mcrypt / libmcrypt | 2.5_.0 | 2.5_.0.x |
| mcrypt / libmcrypt | 2.5.3 | 2.5.3.x |