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Gentoo: GLSA-200502-24 Normal: Midnight Commander Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey February 17, 2005
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Midnight Commander is vulnerable to format string and overflow problems, which may allow for unauthorized code execution. Please update immediately!
Midnight Commander contains several format string errors, buffer overflows and one buffer underflow leading to execution of arbitrary code

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200502-24 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Midnight Commander: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: February 17, 2005 Bugs: #77992 ID: 200502-24

Synopsis ======= Midnight Commander contains several format string errors, buffer overflows and one buffer underflow leading to execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= Midnight Commander is a visual console file manager.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 app-misc/mc < 4.6.0-r13 >= 4.6.0-r13
========== Midnight Commander contains several format string vulnerabilities (CAN-2004-1004), buffer overflows (CAN-2004-1005), a memory deallocation err...

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