Executive Summary

Summary
Title New version of Midnight Commander available
Informations
Name DSA-036 First vendor Publication 2001-03-07
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2001-03-07
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing a random program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov.

We recommend you upgrade your mc package.

wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-036

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 12

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 036-1 (mc)
File : nvt/deb_036_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
1671 Midnight Commander Directory Viewing Command Execution

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2004-09-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-036.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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