CVE-2004-1090 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2004-1090?

CVE-2004-1090 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 22 Jan 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Midnight commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via "a corrupt section header."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-1090?

It affects 8 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gentoo Linux, Midnight Commander Midnight Commander, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Linux Advanced Workstation, Suse Suse Linux and 2 more.

How do I fix CVE-2004-1090?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2004-1090 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-1090 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2004-1090, GHSA-j24h-g3gm-3f99.