glsa-200405-21.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200405-21">
  <title>Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple security issues have been discovered in Midnight Commander
    including several buffer overflows and string format vulnerabilities.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">MC</product>
  <announced>May 26, 2004</announced>
  <revised>May 26, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>49990</bug>
  <access>local </access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-misc/mc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.6.0-r7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="le">4.6.0-r6</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Numerous security issues have been discovered in Midnight Commander,
    including several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, multiple vulnerabilities
    in the handling of temporary file and directory creation, and multiple
    format string vulnerabilities.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    The buffer overflows and format string vulnerabilities may allow attackers
    to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with permissions of
    the user running MC. The insecure creation of temporary files and
    directories could lead to a privilege escalation, including root
    privileges, for a local attacker.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time. All users are advised to upgrade
    to version 4.6.0-r7 or higher of Midnight Commander.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Midnight Commander users should upgrade to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge sync

    # emerge -pv ">=app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r7
    # emerge ">=app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r7"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0226">CAN-2004-0226</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0231">CAN-2004-0231</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0232">CAN-2004-0232</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>