Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities

Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities Midnight Commander contains several format string errors, buffer overflows and one buffer underflow leading to execution of arbitrary code. mc 2005-02-17 2005-02-17 77992 remote 4.6.0-r13 4.6.0-r13

Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager.

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).

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.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All Midnight Commander users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r13"

CAN-2004-1004 CAN-2004-1005 CAN-2004-1092 CAN-2004-1176 koon koon jaervosz