Bug 114540

Summary:	CAN-2003-1023 mc stack overflow
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Leonard den Ottolander <leonard-rh-bugzilla>
Component:	mc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Version:	1	CC:	bart.martens
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Description Leonard den Ottolander 2004-01-29 12:10:14 UTC

A buffer overflow has been found in Midnight Commander's virtual
filesystem code. Specifically, a stack-based buffer overflow in
vfs_s_resolve_symlink of vfs/direntry.c allows remote attackers to
execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion.

Also see bug #113849 and bug #113850

Comment 1 Bart Martens 2004-02-04 21:19:29 UTC

Included in:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/1/i386/mc-4.6.0-8.4.i386.rpm

Comment 2 Leonard den Ottolander 2004-02-04 21:32:26 UTC

The patch was already included in 8.1, but at that time not announced
as a security update (actually not announced at all).

8.4 should be pushed to the main update tree ASAP as this is a serious
vulnerability and not every body runs or checks testing, so I assume
90% of people running Fedora are still vulnerable.