OpenPKG Security Advisory
OpenPKG-SA-2004.009
Publisher Name: OpenPKG GmbH Publisher Home: http://openpkg.com/ Advisory Id (public): OpenPKG-SA-2004.009 Advisory Type: OpenPKG Security Advisory (SA) Advisory Directory: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA Advisory Document: http://openpkg.com/go/OpenPKG-SA-2004.009 Advisory Published: 2010-03-12 17:57 UTC Issue Id (internal): OpenPKG-SI-20040405.01 Issue First Created: 2004-04-05 Issue Last Modified: 2006-11-28 Issue Revision: 05
Subject Name: mc Subject Summary: GNU Midnight Commander Subject Home: http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ Subject Versions: * <= 4.6.0 Vulnerability Id: CVE-2003-1023 Vulnerability Scope: global (not OpenPKG specific) Attack Feasibility: run-time Attack Vector: local system Attack Impact: arbitrary code execution Description: According to a message from Ilya Teterin posted on Bugtraq [0], the Midnight Commander application [1] uses a uninitialized buffer to handle symlinks in VFS. This allows attackers to execute arbitrary code during symlink conversion. References: [0] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=106399528518704 [1] http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ [2] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2003-1023 [3] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-source [4] http://www.openpkg.org/tutorial.html#regular-binary [5] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/mc-4.6.0-1.3.1.src.rpm [6] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.0/UPD/mc-4.6.0-2.0.1.src.rpm [7] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/1.3/UPD/ [8] ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.0/UPD/ [9] http://www.openpkg.org/security.html#signature
Primary Package Name: mc Primary Package Home: http://openpkg.org/go/package/mc Affected Distribution: Affected Branch: Affected Package: OpenPKG Community 1.3-SOLID mc-4.6.0-1.3.0 OpenPKG Community 2.0-SOLID mc-4.6.0-2.0.0 OpenPKG Community CURRENT mc-4.6.0-20040207 Corrected Distribution: Corrected Branch: Corrected Package: OpenPKG Community 1.3-SOLID mc-4.6.0-1.3.1 OpenPKG Community 2.0-SOLID mc-4.6.0-2.0.1 OpenPKG Community CURRENT mc-4.6.0-20040405
