Re: midnight commander vulnerability(?)

[thomas () SUSE DE (Thomas Biege)]

Hi,

> privileges of $HOME/.mc/ are default rwx-rx--rx-
> if anyone has used built in mc ftp-client and has put link like:
> password:> password:user () some host, in file
> history in foledr $HOME/.mc/ is stored in a key in '[inp FTP to machine
> ]'
> tree.

The current version (4.5.37) of mc, that is used by SuSE creates
the history file mode 600 independently of the umask.

Nevertheless, I think it's a very bad behavior to record account
informations, because it could be used by a cracker to gain access
to more sites.
The authors of mc should disable recording these kind of stuff.

Bye,
     Thomas

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