glsa-201402-18.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/glsa.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="/xsl/guide.xsl" type="text/xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201402-18">
  <title>GNU Midnight Commander: User-assisted execution of arbitrary code</title>
  <synopsis>GNU Midnight Commander does not properly sanitize environment
    variables, possibly resulting in execution of arbitrary code or Denial of
    Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mc</product>
  <announced>February 20, 2014</announced>
  <revised>February 20, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>436518</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-misc/mc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.8.7</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.8.7</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>GNU Midnight Commander is a text based file manager.</p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>GNU Midnight Commander does not properly sanitize environment variables.</p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted
      archive file using GNU Midnight Commander, possibly resulting in
      execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or a
      Denial of Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All GNU Midnight Commander users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=app-misc/mc-4.8.7"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4463">CVE-2012-4463</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 15 Jan 2013 21:11:02 +0000">ackle</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 20 Feb 2014 10:53:52 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>