PT-2001-1147 · Unknown+2 · Midnight Commander+1

Published 2001-01-09 · Updated 2022-01-19 · CVE-2000-1108

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Midnight Commander (mc) versions 4.5.42 and earlier

Description The issue allows local users to corrupt files by creating a symbolic link to the target file and specifying that link as a TTY argument in Midnight Commander, due to improper verification of output file descriptors as TTYs.

Recommendations For Midnight Commander (mc) versions 4.5.42 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2022-1068

ALT-PU-2022-1089

CVE-2000-1108

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Midnight Commander

References · 38

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/1945 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0480 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2000-1109 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2022-1089 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0226 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1090 · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2000/20001125 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2000-1108 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-00235 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1175 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2022-1068 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06202 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-06415 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36370 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0763 · Security Note