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Debian DSA-036-1 : Midnight Commander - arbitrary program execution

medium Nessus Plugin ID 14873

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight Commander of another user into executing an arbitrary program under the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov.

Solution

Upgrade the mc package.

See Also

http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-036

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 14873

File Name: debian_DSA-036.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/29/2004

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:gmc, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:2.2, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mc

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/7/2001

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2000-1109

BID: 2016

DSA: 036