AES Crypt for Linux Password Security Vulnerability

AES Crypt is a file encryption software for multiple platforms. AES Crypt for Linux built using the source on GitHub and having the version number 3.11 has a vulnerability with respect to reading user-provided passwords and confirmations via command-line prompts. Passwords lengths were not checked before being read. This vulnerability may lead to buffer overruns. This does not affect source code found on aescrypt.com, nor is the vulnerability present when providing a password or a key via the -p or -k command-line options. The problem was fixed via in commit 68761851b and will be included in release 3.16. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should us the -p or -k options to provide a password or key.