CVE-2003-1023: Midnight Commander

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in vfs_s_resolve_symlink of vfs/direntry.c for Midnight Commander (mc) 4.6.0 and earlier, and possibly later versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion.

Affected products

• Midnight Commander Midnight Commander: version 4.5.52 only; version 4.5.55 only; version 4.6 only

Published 2004-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.