CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-1108

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2001-01-09 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-01-09
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

cons.saver in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.42 and earlier does not properly verify if an output file descriptor is a TTY, which allows local users to corrupt files by creating a symbolic link to the target file, calling mc, and specifying that link as a TTY argument.

Affected configurations

• midnight commander midnight commander 4.5.42

References