Bug 153983

Summary: Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 Reporter: Leonard den Ottolander <leonard-rh-bugzilla>
Component: mcAssignee: Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version: 2.1CC: pknirsch, srevivo
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OS: Linux   
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0763
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Fix for CAN-2005-0763 (taken from Debian mc-4.5.55-1.2woody6). none

Description Leonard den Ottolander 2005-04-06 12:52:24 UTC 
Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier may allow
attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Only affects RHL 7.3

See http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0763 and
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-698

Attachment is extracted patch for CAN-2005-0763 from mc-4.5.55-1.2woody6
mentioned in Debian advisory.
Comment 1 Leonard den Ottolander 2005-04-06 12:52:24 UTC 
Created attachment 112755 [details]
Fix for CAN-2005-0763 (taken from Debian mc-4.5.55-1.2woody6).
Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2005-04-06 13:10:25 UTC 
Hello Leonard,

thanks for the patch. I'm not quite sure it's worth fixing as the buffer
overflowed of one single byte :)
Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2005-04-07 07:33:37 UTC 
The fix is now applied, thanks.
Comment 4 Josh Bressers 2005-06-17 01:46:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158671 ***