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CVE-2000-1109

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CVE-2000-1109

Published: May 7, 2001

Modified: Aug 8, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Midnight 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.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

n/a

affected
n/a

References

2016
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
20001127 Midnight Commander
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
SuSE-SA:2001:11
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
DSA-036
vendor-advisory
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