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Fedora Core 4: FEDORA-2005-888 Critical: MC Application Fix

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Calendar Grey September 14, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update to Midnight Commander resolves key vulnerabilities in Fedora Core 4. Discover the specifics of the improvements and the systems impacted by these changes.
Updated package.

Summary

Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only

with many more features. It is a text mode application, but it also

includes mouse support if you are running GPM. Midnight Commander's

best features are its ability to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to

poke into RPMs for specific files.

- fix segfault when copying symlinks of a particular type and

fix creation of dangled symlinks (#168184)

- don't hang when ftpfs connection times out - Hans de Goede (#166976)

- backport the new Find dialog from upstream (#167493)

- fix extension file to better fit FC (xpdf->evince, lynx->links)

- highlight "%check" in spec files (Mike A. Harris)

- enable samba vfs

156f7cfe584b0e24d728349a8a58ad6d SRPMS/mc-4.6.1a-0.12.FC4.src.rpm

a90694fc8117066b08d703592c2b407a ppc/mc-4.6.1a-0.12.FC4.ppc.rpm

0cdee6c27858f991bb9bb51ca0abb9a4 ppc/debug/mc-debuginfo-4.6.1a-0.12.FC4.ppc.rpm

b4cd3782f83a51fadd046f9cdb2f4659 x86_64/mc-4.6.1a-0.12.FC4.x86_64.rpm

a76dec729d1296a2e74c267401801ca8 x86_64/debug/mc-debuginfo-4.6.1a-0.12.FC4.x86_64.rpm

b80514eb7758f971373ea8443be2f48d i386/mc-4.6.1a-0.12.FC4.i386.rpm

e2a2ace2127306ce44d29f69c513570a i386/debug/mc-debuginfo-4.6.1a-0.12.FC4.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Name: mc
Version: 4.6.1a
Release: 0.12.FC4
Summary: A user-friendly file manager and visual shell.

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