National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0232

Overview

Multiple format string vulnerabilities in Midnight Commander (mc) before 4.6.0 may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

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External Source: XF

Name: midnight-commander-format-string(16021)

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16021

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2004:172

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-172.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SuSE-SA:2004:012

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_12_mc.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-497

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-497

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200405-21

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200405-21.xml

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2004:039

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:039