Debian Security Advisory
mc -- local DoS
- Date Reported:
- 25 Nov 2000
- Affected Packages:
- mc
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2000-1108.
- More information:
- Maurycy Prodeus found a problem in cons.saver, a screensaver for the console that is included in the mc package. cons.saver does not check if it is started with a valid stdout, which combined with a bug in its check to see if its argument is a tty (it forgot to close the file-descriptor after opening the supposed tty) causes it to write a NUL character to the file given as its parameter. This has been fixed in version 4.5.42-11.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.5.diff.gz
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mc_4.5.42-11.potato.5.dsc
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/mc_4.5.42.orig.tar.gz
- alpha:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.5_alpha.deb
- arm:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.5_arm.deb
- i386:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.5_i386.deb
- m68k:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.5_m68k.deb
- powerpc:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.5_powerpc.deb
- sparc:
-
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/gmc_4.5.42-11.potato.5_sparc.deb