Bug 114540 - CAN-2003-1023 mc stack overflow
Summary: CAN-2003-1023 mc stack overflow
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mc
Version: 1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
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Reported: 2004-01-29 12:10 UTC by Leonard den Ottolander
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: 4.6.0-8.4
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Last Closed: 2004-02-09 15:56:59 UTC
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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.
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