Vulnerability in Midnight Commander
CVE-2003-1023
Stack-based buffer overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink of vfs/direntry.c for Midnight Commander (mc) 4.6.0 and earlier, and possibly later versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.051 (92.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.051 · newest: 0.051 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Midnight Commander — versions 4.5.52, 4.5.55, 4.6
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-034.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/10772 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-legacy-announce/2004-May/msg00002.html (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/13247 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/10716 (third-party-advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2004-058.shtml (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/10645 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/10823 (third-party-advisory)