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Gentoo: GLSA-200405-21 High: Midnight Commander Multiple Issues

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2004
Scroller Gentoo
Uncover critical vulnerabilities in Midnight Commander impacting Gentoo systems, such as buffer overflow risks. Urgent updates needed!
Multiple security issues have been discovered in Midnight Commander including several buffer overflows and string format vulnerabilities.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200405-21 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: May 26, 2004 Bugs: #49990 ID: 200405-21

Synopsis ======= Multiple security issues have been discovered in Midnight Commander including several buffer overflows and string format vulnerabilities.
Background ========= Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-misc/mc <= 4.6.0-r6 >= 4.6.0-r7
========== Numerous security issues have been discovered in Midnight Commander, including several buffer overflow vulnerabilities, multiple vulnerabilities in the handling of temporary file and direct...

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