Jacub Jelinek discovered several vulnerabilities in the Midnight
Commander, a powerful file manager for GNU/Linux systems. The
problems were classified as follows:
CAN-2004-0226 Buffer overflows
CAN-2004-0231 Insecure temporary file and directory creations
CAN-2004-0232 Format string problems
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5.55-1.2woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your mc packages.