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<glsa id="200502-24">
  <title>Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Midnight Commander contains several format string errors, buffer overflows
    and one buffer underflow leading to execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">mc</product>
  <announced>February 17, 2005</announced>
  <revised>February 17, 2005: 01</revised>
  <bug>77992</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="app-misc/mc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">4.6.0-r13</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">4.6.0-r13</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Midnight Commander contains several format string vulnerabilities
    (CAN-2004-1004), buffer overflows (CAN-2004-1005), a memory
    deallocation error (CAN-2004-1092) and a buffer underflow
    (CAN-2004-1176).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute
    arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Midnight
    Commander or cause Denial of Service by freeing unallocated memory.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Midnight Commander users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r13&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1004">CAN-2004-1004</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1005">CAN-2004-1005</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1092">CAN-2004-1092</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1176">CAN-2004-1176</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:35:43 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 15 Feb 2005 16:08:08 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:09:31 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>