CVE-2004-1174
direntry.c in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service by "manipulating non-existing file handles."
02 Description
direntry.c in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service by "manipulating non-existing file handles."
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.43% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 72.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-01-22 05:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 00:39Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2004-12-13
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 10fedf6647e513e28c36a23db20368836fa472114ed9a5ed2fe2d225e949f7c2
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com13863http://secunia.com/advisories/13863/
- securitytracker.com1012903http://securitytracker.com/id?1012903
- www.debian.orgDSA-639http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-639
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commidnight-commander-direntry-dos(18909)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18909
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:512http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-512.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mc Fixed in 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mc Fixed in 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mc Fixed in 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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