DSA-497-1 mc -- several vulnerabilities

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-497-1 mc -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

29 Apr 2004

Affected Packages:

mc

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.