Executive Summary

Summary
Title New mc packages fix buffer overflow
Informations
Name DSA-698 First vendor Publication 2005-03-29
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2005-03-29
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 4.6 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

An unfixed buffer overflow has been discovered by Andrew V. Samoilov in mc, the midnight commander, a file browser and manager. This update also fixes a regression from DSA 497.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 4.5.55-1.2woody6.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has already been fixed.

We recommend that you upgrade your mc packages.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-698

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 17

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 698-1 (mc)
File : nvt/deb_698_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
15170 Midnight Commander insert_text() Function Local Overflow

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2005-06-17 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.
File : redhat-RHSA-2005-512.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2005-03-29 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-698.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-02-17 11:33:57
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2013-05-11 12:18:56
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