Debian DSA-036-1 : Midnight Commander - arbitrary program execution

It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing an arbitrary program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The...

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...