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ubuntu-cve-2012-4463

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2012-10-10 18:55

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

Midnight Commander (mc) 4.8.5 does not properly handle the (1) MC_EXT_SELECTED or (2) MC_EXT_ONLYTAGGED environment variables when multiple files are selected, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted file name.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4463	REPORT
	https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2913	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4463	REPORT

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  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4463",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:08Z",
  "published": "2012-10-10T18:55:00Z",
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  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:42:47Z"
}

CVE-2012-4463 (GCVE-0-2012-4463)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-10 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

7 references

URL	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/5	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2913	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436518#c7	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/03/4	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862813	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55777	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Date Public

2012-09-28 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2012-4463 (GCVE-0-2012-4463)

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