Debian Security Advisory

DSA-424-1 mc -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

16 Jan 2004

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8658.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-1023.

More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in Midnight Commander, a file manager, whereby a malicious archive (such as a .tar file) could cause arbitrary code to be executed if opened by Midnight Commander.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.55-1.2woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1:4.6.0-4.6.1-pre1-1.

We recommend that you update your mc package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2.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_4.5.55-1.2woody2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_mips.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody2_sparc.deb

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