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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!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>