CVE-2023-45925 (GCVE-0-2023-45925)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 18:18 Disputed
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.29-146-g299d9a2fb was discovered to contain a NULL pointer dereference via the function x_error_handler() at tty/x11conn.c. NOTE: this is disputed because it should be categorized as a usability problem (an X operation silently fails).
Severity
No CVSS data available.
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-04-30 17:22 UTC
CWE
- n/a
- CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
3 references
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| midnight_commander | midnight_commander |
Affected:
4.8.29-146-g299d9a2fb
cpe:2.3:a:midnight_commander:midnight_commander:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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