Debian missed a patch, looks like we too.

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:26:05 +0200
From: Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>
To: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 698-1] New mc packages fix buffer overflow

Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Martin Schulze wrote:
> > Package        : mc
> > Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
> > Problem-Type   : local
> > Debian-specific: no
> > CVE ID         : CAN-2005-0763
> > 
> > An unfixed buffer overflow has been discovered by Andrew V. Samoilov
> > in mc, the midnight commander, a file browser and manager.  This update
> > also fixes a regression from DSA 497.
> 
> You say it's not debian specific, do you have any details on this?

Sure, see the attached patch.  It's basically an old issue that we've
missed in the other round of updates.  It's fixed in current versions
of mc.

Regards,

	Joey

-- 
We all know Linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
        -- Linus Torvalds

diff -u mc-4.5.55/debian/changelog mc-4.5.55/debian/changelog
--- mc-4.5.55/debian/changelog
+++ mc-4.5.55/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+mc (4.5.55-1.2woody6) stable-security; urgency=high
+
+  * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
+  * Applied patch by Andrew V. Samoilov to fix another buffer overflow
+    [src/complete.c, debian/patches/52_security_CAN-2005-0763.diff]
+
+ -- Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>  Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:34:08 +0100
+
 mc (4.5.55-1.2woody5) stable-security; urgency=high
 
   * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- mc-4.5.55.orig/debian/patches/52_security_CAN-2005-0763.diff
+++ mc-4.5.55/debian/patches/52_security_CAN-2005-0763.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -u -p -Nr --exclude CVS mc-4.5.55.orig/src/complete.c mc-4.5.55/src/complete.c
+--- mc-4.5.55.orig/src/complete.c	2005-03-17 16:13:29.000000000 +0100
++++ mc-4.5.55/src/complete.c	2005-03-17 16:22:40.000000000 +0100
+@@ -827,8 +827,8 @@ static int insert_text (WInput *in, char
+     }
+     if (strlen (in->buffer)+1 < in->current_max_len){
+     	if (len > 0){
+-	    int i, l = strlen (&in->buffer [end]);
+-	    for (i = l + 1; i >= 0; i--)
++	    int i = strlen (&in->buffer [end]);
++	    for (; i >= 0; i--)
+ 	        in->buffer [end + len + i] = in->buffer [end + i];
+ 	} else if (len < 0){
+ 	    char *p = in->buffer + end + len, *q = in->buffer + end;