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A minor tale of woe:
John Lightsey sent me a Midnight Commander Security Alert about a buffer overflow vulnerability.

(I didn't understand the directions completely:)

mc -V

I checked the version of Midnight Commander, it was only 4.5.55 not 4.5.55-1.2woody2 specified in the alert.

apt-get update

To update APT's cache.

apt-get -u upgrade mc

Thought this might upgrade just Midnight Commander, it obviously was going to do the whole system — cancelled it.

apt-get -u install mc

Tried a re-install, it happened; but installed 4.6.0 — I still had "testing" in my sources.list from doing my TWiki %ip%

apt-get -u install mc-

Removed the "bad" mc

cp sources.list.stable sources.list

Changed sources.list back to stable only. (I had backed it up.)

apt-get -u install mc

Tried a 2nd re-install, it happened.

mc -V

got back to 4.5.55, still no 4.5.55-1.2woody2

Wonder if mc -V shows the full version???

apt-cache showpkg mc

Package: mc
Versions:
4.5.55-1.2woody2(/var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary-i386_Packages)(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
4.5.55-1.2(/var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.us.debian.org_debian_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages)
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present time

apt-get -u install mc=4.5.55-1.2woody2

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, mc is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0  not upgraded.

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