CVE-2005-0763

dsa-698.txt

Severity Score

9.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.

An unfixed buffer overflow has been discovered by Andrew V. Samoilov in mc, the midnight commander, a file browser and manager. This update also fixes a regression from DSA 497.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2005-03-17 CVE Reserved
2005-03-29 CVE Published
2024-08-07 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-698	2008-09-05

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-512.html	2008-09-05
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2005-0763	2005-06-16
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617578	2005-06-16

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Midnight Commander Search vendor "Midnight Commander"		Midnight Commander Search vendor "Midnight Commander" for product "Midnight Commander"				<= 4.5.55 Search vendor "Midnight Commander" for product "Midnight Commander" and version " <= 4.5.55"		-		Affected