CVE-2000-1109

Summary

CVECVE-2000-1109
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2001-01-09 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2017-10-10 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionMidnight 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.40 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.41 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.42 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.43 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.44 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.45 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.46 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.47 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.48 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.49 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.50 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.51 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.40 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.41 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.42 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.43 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.44 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.45 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.46 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.47 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.48 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.49 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.50 All All All
Application Midnight Commander Midnight Commander 4.5.51 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian GNU/Linux -- Security Information -- DSA-036-1 Midnight Commander DEBIAN www.debian.org
Midnight Commander Directory Viewing Command Execution Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Vendor Advisory
404 Page Not Found | SUSE SUSE www.novell.com
Neohapsis Archives - Bugtraq - Midnight Commander - From [email protected] BUGTRAQ archives.neohapsis.com Vendor Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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