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.
References
- 20001113 Problems with cons.saver mailing-list
- 1945 vdb-entry
- midnight-commander-conssaver-symlink(5519) vdb-entry
- MDKSA-2000:078 vendor-advisory
- 20001125 mc: local DoS vendor-advisory