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Bug 153982

Summary: Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Product: [Retired] Fedora Legacy Reporter: Leonard den Ottolander <leonard-rh-bugzilla>
Component: mcAssignee: Fedora Legacy Bugs <bugs>
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Version: rhl7.3Keywords: Security
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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 12:44:46 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 12:44:46 UTC 
Created attachment 112754 [details]
Fix for CAN-2005-0763 (taken from Debian mc-4.5.55-1.2woody6).
Comment 2 Leonard den Ottolander 2005-04-13 15:25:05 UTC 
Tracked at bug 152889.
Comment 3 Marc Deslauriers 2005-05-08 20:14:30 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 152889 ***