Package : mc Vulnerability : several vulnerabilities Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0226 CAN-2004-0231 CAN-2004-0232
Jacub Jelinek discovered several vulnerabilities in the Midnight Commander, a powerful file manager for GNU/Linux systems. The problems were classified as follows:
CAN-2004-0226 Buffer overflows CAN-2004-0231 Insecure temporary file and directory creations CAN-2004-0232 Format string problems
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.55-1.2woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mc packages.
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 --------------------------------