Debian GNU/Linux 3.0: 2004-497-1 Critical: mc Local Threats

Jacub Jelinek discovered several vulnerabilities in the Midnight
Commander, a powerful file manager for GNU/Linux systems. The
problems were classified as follows:

CAN-2004-0226 Buffer overflows
CAN-2004-0231 Insecure temporary file and directory creations
CAN-2004-0232 Format string problems

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5.55-1.2woody3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your mc packages.


Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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