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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: mc
Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2001:11
Date: Tuesday, April 10th, 2001 15.21 MEST
Affected SuSE versions: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.0, 7.1
Vulnerability Type: local privilege escalation
Severity (1-10): 4
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all system using mc
Content of this advisory:
1) security vulnerability resolved: mc
problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds
3) standard appendix (further information)
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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
The Midnight Commander, mc(1), is a ncurses-based file manager.
A local attacker could trick mc(1) into executing commands with
the privileges of the user running mc(1) by creating malicious
directory names. This attack leads to local privilege escalation.
There does no workaround exist. The only solution is to update the
mc package.
Download the update package from locations desribed below and install
the package with the command `rpm -Uhv file.rpm'. The md5sum for each
file is in the line below. You can verify the integrity of the rpm
files using the command
`rpm --checksig --nogpg file.rpm',
independently from the md5 signatures below.
i386 Intel Platform:
SuSE-7.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/ap1/mc-4.5.51-1.i386.rpm
c1eb197dff39e61065c498fa91347836
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/mc-4.5.51-1.src.rpm
cb768e70eacbf622464a71d8b5983769
SuSE-7.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/ap1/mc-4.5.50-1.i386.rpm
2770c2df6acd3e3ec8d9195e689aa037
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.0/zq1/mc-4.5.50-1.src.rpm
579a86de5c2a14e61d0b6097611fdfb7
SuSE-6.4
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/ap1/mc-4.5.42-47.i386.rpm
c16569cbbeb1d42823c1b6abdd61c03e
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/mc-4.5.42-47.src.rpm
d30069c9d3bf76b6f90d11b6cff86133
SuSE-6.3
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/ap1/mc-4.5.40-3.i386.rpm
655a6cac8bdb49789ee55c3bdc38e104
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/mc-4.5.40-3.src.rpm
969a5f5427e04ea2710516ae3b9360c6
SuSE-6.2
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/ap1/mc-4.5.37-20.i386.rpm
c6cf641cd54c976df4f64a0fa1263d65
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/mc-4.5.37-20.src.rpm
ccdd4d9e727edc45c610013f69af9c86
SuSE-6.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/ap1/mc-4.5.33-1.i386.rpm
2dd900869259558ef6ad9b16e056322d
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq1/mc-4.5.33-1.src.rpm
10c3a9ae63cbd8e43923f9245bba166c
Sparc Platform:
SuSE-7.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/ap1/mc-4.5.50-1.sparc.rpm
16fab4824da5347fe243bfd8a3196a02
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.0/zq1/mc-4.5.50-1.src.rpm
f8a51dd5975e6c1c34492f1fae6c66c7
AXP Alpha Platform:
SuSE-6.4
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/ap1/mc-4.5.42-47.alpha.rpm
dd80759475ca682a421cdd7dff4c6539
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/mc-4.5.42-47.src.rpm
1d98da3743c951003b99bf8b88b577f1
SuSE-6.3
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/ap1/mc-4.5.40-1.alpha.rpm
31a77b496e6c4185b0d9dd50336fb238
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/mc-4.5.40-1.src.rpm
dae662f3de8f42590feb62e1dc3abce8
SuSE-6.1
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/ap1/mc-4.5.33-14.alpha.rpm
58906f33013bc64cc090ed56c05ab6d7
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/zq1/mc-4.5.33-14.src.rpm
32727c15d6df11ceaa07afbd67b96b64
PPC PowerPC Platform:
SuSE-7.0
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/ap1/mc-4.5.50-1.ppc.rpm
0f17db922b03ee5db09e46311b5c1096
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.0/zq1/mc-4.5.50-1.src.rpm
aa1d77e05edd2b6097896be3bc3433d2
SuSE-6.4
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/ap1/mc-4.5.42-47.ppc.rpm
018dbd5d4f7ed760e5fcfe22bceee016
source rpm:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/mc-4.5.42-47.src.rpm
e56125ce9edd85accd1ea2830e578504
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2) Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
- We are in the process of preparing update packages for the man package
which has been found vulnerable to a commandline format string bug.
The man command is installed suid man on SuSE systems. When exploited,
the bug can be used to install a different man binary to introduce a
trojan into the system. As an interim workaround, we recommend to
`chmod -s /usr/bin/man´ and ignore the warnings and errors when
viewing manpages.
- Two bugs were found in the text editor vim. These bugs are currently
being fixed.
- A bufferoverflow in sudo was discovered and fixed RPMs will be
available as soon as possible. A exploit was not made public until
now.
- NEdit a GUI-style text editor needs an update due to a tmp race
condition. The source code is currently being reviewed and new
RPMs will be available within the next days.
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3) standard appendix:
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- general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
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