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Gentoo: GLSA-202310-15 Critical: OpenSSH Protocol Exposure Risk

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2004
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A buffer overflow vulnerability in Midnight Commander can enable remote code execution. It's crucial to update to address this serious security issue.
A remotely-exploitable buffer overflow in Midnight Commander allows arbitrary code to be run on a user's computer

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200403-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Buffer overflow in Midnight Commander Date: March 29, 2004 Bugs: #45957 ID: 200403-09

Synopsis ======= A remotely-exploitable buffer overflow in Midnight Commander allows arbitrary code to be run on a user's computer
Background ========= Midnight Commander is a visual file manager.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- app-misc/mc <= 4.6.0-r4 >= 4.6.0-r5
========== A stack-based buffer overflow has been found in Midnight Commander's virtual filesystem.
Impact ===== This overflow allows an attacker to run arbitrary code on the user's computer during the symlink conversion process.
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