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[DSA036] DSA-036-1 Midnight Commander

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-036-1 Midnight Commander

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment
It has been reported that a local user could tweak
Midnight Commander of another user into executing an arbitrary program under
the user id of the person running Midnight Commander. This behaviour has been
fixed by Andrew V. Samoilov.

We recommend you upgrade your mc package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2001/dsa-036
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 2016

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2005 Michel Arboi

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