CVE-2004-1092 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Midnight Commander (mc) versions 4.5.55 and earlier, affecting distributions like Debian, Gentoo, Red Hat, SUSE, and TurboLinux. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to crash the application by triggering the freeing of unallocated memory. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this low-complexity attack requires no authentication and results in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.5.40CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.41CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.42CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.43CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.5.44CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:4.5.44:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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