Debian Security Advisory

DSA-497-1 mc -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

29 Apr 2004

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10242.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0226, CVE-2004-0231, CVE-2004-0232.

More information:

Jacub Jelinek discovered several vulnerabilities in the Midnight Commander, a powerful file manager for GNU/Linux systems. The problems were classified as follows:

CAN-2004-0226 Buffer overflows
CAN-2004-0231 Insecure temporary file and directory creations
CAN-2004-0232 Format string problems

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.55-1.2woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your mc packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody3_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.