Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:56:32 +0100
From: Martin Schulze [email protected]
To: Debian Security Announcements
[email protected]
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 036-1] New version of Midnight Commander
available
Debian Security Advisory DSA-036-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze March 7, 2001
Package : mc Vulnerability : random program execution Type : local Debian-specific: no Fixed version : 4.5.42-11.potato.6
It has been reported that a local user could tweak Midnight
Commander of another user into executing a random 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.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc architectures.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: bd8823e83ef37ada13ad7fc4ca3479c8
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6.dsc
MD5 checksum: c0e84f877cc4b4da15269811f1a538b4
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 0d2e63dd4b0c0a3d4d6c5933187ba222
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 2d2eb51e9ae833b605fc54711cd229fc
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/mc-common_4.5.42-11.potato.6_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 45d65de62f5d7af29cf2ef3b9ab56fd8
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: c58a97f08556e18b6d7f4ff657aa62b0
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 081bbbf191842c7d404fd3e62afa0f7a
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/mc-common_4.5.42-11.potato.6_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 861d25b2ef64d7d6adaa4e3a43813ac6
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 574ef9ba296219900dc03463395c5171
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: b435261f1f200c7058df7f400927453a
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/mc-common_4.5.42-11.potato.6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 71809b28c58361a6864985d3ce4e3e63
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: b1e4af8190f56d0548ca4bdff0136fbf
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 7aa3bfac0ebf2e6c0cde6dc135d034e5
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/mc-common_4.5.42-11.potato.6_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: d97fffed31c62ef9d57a7887f89d8bb9
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 3afa82d8e80787dc981d0b4e38ecd848
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 32d8962f6bcb84b1ac85888a814e3030
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/mc-common_4.5.42-11.potato.6_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 7c73edf0a6eb656b61688a636f8bd9de
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: c2a93b28fe53d9fb8f795382b5714b6c
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 768f61217a7d020855b6b459c48abd45
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.6_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 051f01146c5053964039cf04b87365a1
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/mc-common_4.5.42-11.potato.6_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 023a2ee7f0915319fd33d9e5008533ec
These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>