Midnight commander up to 4.5.55 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Midnight commander up to 4.5.55 and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-1091. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Midnight commander up to 4.5.55. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering a null dereference.

The bug was discovered 01/14/2005. The weakness was released 04/14/2005 by Andrew (Website). The advisory is shared at debian.org. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2004-1091 since 11/30/2004. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are 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. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (18908), Tenable (16165), SecurityFocus (BID 12263†), OSVDB (12906†) and Secunia (SA13859†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-1124, VDB-24606, VDB-24185 and VDB-24184. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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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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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: debian.org
Researcher: Andrew
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2004-1091 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-1091
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-24181
X-Force: 18908
SecurityFocus: 12263 - Midnight Commander Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 13859 - Midnight Commander Multiple Unspecified Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 12906 - CVE-2004-1091 - Midnight commander - Denial-of-Service Issue
Vulnerability Center: 8165 - DoS in Midnight Commander 4.x via Null Deference, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/10/2015 23:05
Updated: 06/02/2019 00:25
Changes: 03/10/2015 23:05 (70), 06/02/2019 00:25 (9)
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Cache ID: 216:C6B:103

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