PT-2004-1201 · Unknown+2 · Midnight Commander+1

Ilya Teterin · Published 2004-01-06 · Updated 2022-01-19 · CVE-2003-1023

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Midnight Commander versions prior to 4.6.0

Description The issue is related to a stack-based buffer overflow in the vfs s resolve symlink function of vfs/direntry.c, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.6.0, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2022-1068

ALT-PU-2022-1089

CVE-2003-1023

DSA-424

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Midnight Commander

References · 63

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-01363 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0232 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2022-1068 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1175 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1176 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0226 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1023 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-1023 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1092 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-0231 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1004 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-1999-0480 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-1009 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-1023 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36370 · Security Note