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[DSA497] DSA-497-1 mc

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-497-1 mc

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Jacub Jelinek discovered several vulnerabilities in the Midnight
Commander, a powerful file manager for GNU/Linux systems. The
problems were classified as follows:
CVE-2004-0226 Buffer overflows
CVE-2004-0231 Insecure temporary file and directory creations
CVE-2004-0232 Format string problems
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5.55-1.2woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mc packages.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-497
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 10242

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

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