Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New mc packages fix buffer overflow |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-424 | First vendor Publication | 2004-01-16 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2004-01-16 |
| 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:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 7.5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 6.4 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A vulnerability was discovered in Midnight Commander, a file manager, whereby a malicious archive (such as a .tar file) could cause arbitrary code to be executed if opened by Midnight Commander. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.55-1.2woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre1-1. We recommend that you update your mc package. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-424 |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:822 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:822 | ||
| Title: | Midnight Commander vfs_s_resolve_symlink BO | ||
| Description: | Stack-based buffer overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink of vfs/direntry.c for Midnight Commander (mc) 4.6.0 and earlier, and possibly later versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion. | ||
| Family: | unix | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2003-1023 | Version: | 2 |
| Platform(s): | Red Hat Linux 9 | Product(s): | Midnight Commander |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-09-24 | Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200403-09 (mc) File : nvt/glsa_200403_09.nasl |
| 2008-09-04 | Name : FreeBSD Ports: mc File : nvt/freebsd_mc1.nasl |
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 424-1 (mc) File : nvt/deb_424_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 2595 | Midnight Commander VFS Symlink Overflow |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2009-04-23 | Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update. File : freebsd_pkg_322d4ff685c311d8a41f0020ed76ef5a.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-424.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-08-30 | Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches. File : gentoo_GLSA-200403-09.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-31 | Name : The remote Mandrake Linux host is missing a security update. File : mandrake_MDKSA-2004-007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-23 | Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update. File : fedora_2004-058.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
| 2004-07-06 | Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates. File : redhat-RHSA-2004-035.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:33:02 |
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