5720 : Midnight Commander Unspecified Format String
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2004-04-30

Description

GNU Midnight Commander contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to gain access to unauthorized privileges. The issue is triggered when the program fails to validate input of non-descript format strings. No further details have been provided. This flaw may lead to a loss of integrity and/or availability.

Classification

Location: Local Access Required, Local / Remote, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity, Loss of Availability

Solution

Currently, there are no known workarounds or upgrades to correct this issue. However, linux vendors Debian, Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware and SuSE have released patches to address this vulnerability.

Products

GNU	Midnight Commander	4.5.40
		4.5.41
		4.5.42
		4.5.43
		4.5.44
		4.5.45
		4.5.46
		4.5.47
		4.5.48
		4.5.49
		4.5.50
		4.5.51
		4.5.52
		4.5.55
		4.6

References

Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200405-21.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-497
http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/advisories/advisory.php?name=MDKSA-2004:039
http://www.slackware.org/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.386678
http://www.suse.com/de/security/2004_12_mc.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-173.html
Bugtraq ID: 10242
Secunia Advisory ID: 11502 11668 11720
ISS X-Force ID: 16021
CVE ID: 2004-0232 (see also: NVD)
Related OSVDB ID: 5721 5722
Vendor URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/

Tools & Filters

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Credit

Jacub Jelinek -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2003-12-31 | Disagree?

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