Package : mc Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2003-1023
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.
Upgrade Instructions --------------------
wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:
apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --------------------------------