GNU Midnight Commander 4.x denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in GNU Midnight Commander 4.x and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown part. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-1174. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in GNU Midnight Commander 4.x. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

direntry.c in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service by "manipulating non-existing file handles."

The bug was discovered 01/14/2005. The weakness was shared 01/14/2005 by Andrew with Debian (Website). The advisory is shared for download at debian.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1174 since 12/13/2004. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 16165 (Debian DSA-639-1 : mc - several vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 117920 (CentOS Security Update for MC (CESA-2005:512)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at ibiblio.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18909), Tenable (16165), SecurityFocus (BID 12263†), OSVDB (12909†) and Secunia (SA13859†). The entries VDB-24606, VDB-24185, VDB-24184 and VDB-24183 are related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Nessus ID: 16165
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-639-1 : mc - several vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 53475
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 639-1 (mc)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Patch: ibiblio.org

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: gnu.org

Advisory: debian.org
Researcher: Andrew
Organization: Debian
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-1174 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1174
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-1124
X-Force: 18909 - Midnight Commander vfs/direntry.c denial of service, Medium Risk
SecurityFocus: 12263 - Midnight Commander Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 13859 - Midnight Commander Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 12909 - Midnight Commander Nonexistent File Descriptor Handling DoS
SecurityTracker: 1012903
Vulnerability Center: 14435 - Midnight Commander Denial of Service by Manipulating Non-Existing File Handles, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 01/17/2005 16:14
Updated: 06/30/2019 22:22
Changes: 01/17/2005 16:14 (96), 06/30/2019 22:22 (3)
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