Bug 153983 - Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.
Summary: Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander (mc) 4.5.55 and earlier may allow atta...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 158671
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1
Classification: Red Hat
Component: mc
Version: 2.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
QA Contact: Jay Turner
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename....
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-04-06 12:52 UTC by Leonard den Ottolander
Modified: 2015-01-08 00:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-06-17 01:46:58 UTC
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Fix for CAN-2005-0763 (taken from Debian mc-4.5.55-1.2woody6). (657 bytes, patch)
2005-04-06 12:52 UTC, Leonard den Ottolander 		no flags Details | Diff
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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 ***
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