CVE-1999-1337

CVE-1999-1337 affects Midnight Commander (mc) before 4.5.11. The FTP client stores visited-site usernames/passwords in plaintext in the world-readable history file, enabling local users to gain partial privileges. Root cause: insecure plaintext history storage. Impact: local privilege elevation/p...

CVE-1999-1337

FTP client in Midnight Commander mc before 4.5.11 stores usernames and passwords for visited sites in plaintext in the world-readable history file, which allows other local users to gain privileges...

Buffer-overflow vulnerability in Midnight Commander

Overview The mcedit component of some versions of Midnight Commander contains a buffer-overflow vulnerability. Description Midnight Commander is a file manager for open source operating systems, distributed under the GNU General Public License GPL. In version 4.5.1 of Midnight Commander, the mced...

CVE-2001-1429

Buffer overflow in mcedit in Midnight Commander 4.5.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service segmentation fault and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted text file...

CVE-2000-1108

cons.saver in Midnight Commander mc 4.5.42 and earlier does not properly verify if an output file descriptor is a TTY, which allows local users to corrupt files by creating a symbolic link to the target file, calling mc, and specifying that link as a TTY argument...

CVE-2000-1108

CVE-2000-1108 affects Midnight Commander (mc) cons.saver for 4.x and earlier. Root cause: cons.saver does not properly verify if the output descriptor is a TTY and mishandles the argument as a TTY, allowing a local user to cause file corruption by abusing a symlink to the target file when mc is i...

CVE-2000-1109

CVE-2000-1109 affects Midnight Commander (mc) versions up to 4.x, specifically 4.5.51 and earlier. The issue arises when mc processes malformed directory names during directory opening, allowing a local user to gain privileges by creating directories that contain special characters followed by co...

CVE-2000-1109

Midnight Commander mc 4.5.51 and earlier does not properly process malformed directory names when a user opens a directory, which allows other local users to gain privileges by creating directories that contain special characters followed by the commands to be executed...

[SECURITY] [DSA 036-1] New version of Midnight Commander available

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-036-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 7, 2001 - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : mc...

CVE-2000-1108

cons.saver in Midnight Commander mc 4.5.42 and earlier does not properly verify if an output file descriptor is a TTY, which allows local users to corrupt files by creating a symbolic link to the target file, calling mc, and specifying that link as a TTY argument...

CVE-2000-1109

Midnight Commander mc 4.5.51 and earlier does not properly process malformed directory names when a user opens a directory, which allows other local users to gain privileges by creating directories that contain special characters followed by the commands to be executed...

Дырка в midnight commander

некорректная обработка метасимволов в именах файла приводит к возможности выполнения shell-кода...

Midnight Commander

The Midnight Commander 4.5.51 latest. $ od -t x1 mcbug 0000000 03 14 77 04 0a $ mkdir cat mcbug $ mc try to view this directory - 'w' - 0x77 command will be executed; longer commands might be used, as well Obviously, this attack requires privledged user interaction. Midnight Commander won't displ...

Problems with cons.saver

Hi, Many systems have a suid on cons.saver which is part of midnight commander package. Standard location of this binary is /usr/lib/mc/bin/cons.saver. There is a bug, which allows luser to write '0' char to any symlinkable file in system. So it can be very destructive, I wrote simple example of...

DoS через cons.saver из Midnight Commander

Перенаправив вывод приложения в файл можно записать '0' в любой файл...

cons.saver.txt

Subject: Problems with cons.saver Author: Maurycy Prodeus Hi, Many systems have a suid on cons.saver which is part of midnight commander package. Standard location of this binary is /usr/lib/mc/bin/cons.saver. There is a bug, which allows luser to write '\0' char to any symlinkable file in system...

Linux news 23.05.00

Linux 2.2.16pre4 Alan Cox выпустил новую pre-версию следующего стабильного ядра Linux: 2.2.16pre4. Подробнее: http://www.lwn.net/daily/2.2.16pre4.html Kernel Traffic 68 Вышел очередной Kernel Traffic за номером 68. Подробнее: http://linuxtoday.com/newsstory.php3?ltsn=2000-05-22-003-04-OS-KN GNU...

CVE-1999-0480

Local attackers can conduct a denial of service in Midnight Commander 4.x with a symlink attack...

CVE-1999-0480

Midnight Commander 4.x is affected by a local denial of service via a symlink attack. The connected PT-1999-1160 entry confirms the issue in Midnight Commander 4.x and attributes it to a symlink-based condition exploitable by a local attacker to trigger DoS. No remediation or patched versions are...

midnight.commander.4.x.tmp.race.txt

ate: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 01:41:25 +0100 From: Michal Zalewski Midnight Commander 4.x bugs x2 Still not fixed. Temporary files mc are created in insecure way, allowing typical races. Also, entering directories containing $... somewhere might result in execution of embeeded code. Described days ago,...