Debian Security Advisory

DSA-639-1 mc -- several vulnerabilities

Date Reported:

14 Jan 2005

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1004, CVE-2004-1005, CVE-2004-1009, CVE-2004-1090, CVE-2004-1091, CVE-2004-1092, CVE-2004-1093, CVE-2004-1174, CVE-2004-1175, CVE-2004-1176.

More information:

Andrew V. Samoilov has noticed that several bugfixes which were applied to the source by upstream developers of mc, the midnight commander, a file browser and manager, were not backported to the current version of mc that Debian ships in their stable release. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Project identifies the following vulnerabilities:

CAN-2004-1004
Multiple format string vulnerabilities
CAN-2004-1005
Multiple buffer overflows
CAN-2004-1009
One infinite loop vulnerability
CAN-2004-1090
Denial of service via corrupted section header
CAN-2004-1091
Denial of service via null dereference
CAN-2004-1092
Freeing unallocated memory
CAN-2004-1093
Denial of service via use of already freed memory
CAN-2004-1174
Denial of service via manipulating non-existing file handles
CAN-2004-1175
Unintended program execution via insecure filename quoting
CAN-2004-1176
Denial of service via a buffer underflow

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.5.55-1.2woody5.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems should already be fixed since they were backported from current versions.

We recommend that you upgrade your mc package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/gmc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc_4.5.55-1.2woody5_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mc/mc-common_4.5.55-1.2woody5_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.