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