DSA-639-1 mc -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-639-1 mc -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

14 Jan 2005

Affected Packages:

mc

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1004, CVE-2004-1005, CVE-2004-1009, CVE-2004-1090, CVE-2004-1091, CVE-2004-1092, CVE-2004-1093, CVE-2004-1174, CVE-2004-1175, CVE-2004-1176.

More information:

Andrew V. Samoilov has noticed that several bugfixes which were applied to the source by upstream developers of mc, the midnight commander, a file browser and manager, were not backported to the current version of mc that Debian ships in their stable release. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following vulnerabilities:

• CAN-2004-1004

  Multiple format string vulnerabilities

• CAN-2004-1005

  Multiple buffer overflows

• CAN-2004-1009

  One infinite loop vulnerability

• CAN-2004-1090

  Denial of service via corrupted section header

• CAN-2004-1091

  Denial of service via null dereference

• CAN-2004-1092

  Freeing unallocated memory

• CAN-2004-1093

  Denial of service via use of already freed memory

• CAN-2004-1174

  Denial of service via manipulating non-existing file handles

• CAN-2004-1175

  Unintended program execution via insecure filename quoting

• CAN-2004-1176

  Denial of service via a buffer underflow

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.5.55-1.2woody5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems should already be fixed since they were backported from current versions.

We recommend that you upgrade your mc package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5.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_4.5.55-1.2woody5_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_sparc.deb

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