Update Info

openSUSE-2022-61


Security update for mc


Type: security
Severity: moderate
Issued: 2022-03-01
Description:
This update for mc fixes the following issues:

Midnight Commander 4.8.27:

* Core

  - Reimplement version detection (#3603, #4249)
  - Significantly reduce rebuilt time after version change (#2252, #4266)
  - Drop automatic migration of configuration from ~/.mc to XDG-based directories (#3682)
  - zsh: support custom configuration file: ~/.local/share/mc/.zshrc (#4203)
  - Widgets: implement WST_VISIBLE state to show/hide widgets (#2919)
  - Find File: add Follow symlinks option (#2020) 

* VFS

  - extfs: support unrar-6 (#4154)
  - extfs: support official 7z binary (7zz) (#4239)
  - ftpfs: apply file list parser from lftp project (#2841, #3174) 

* Editor

  - Word completion: get candidates from all open files (#4160)
  - etags: get rid of hardcoded list length and window width (#4132)
  - Update syntax files:
    - python (#4140) 
  - Add syntax highlighting:
    - Verilog and SystemVerilog? header files (#4215)
    - JSON (#4250)
    - openrc-run scripts (#4246) 
* Misc

  - Filehighlight of c++ and h++ files as sources (#4194)
  - Filehighlight of JSON files as documents (#4250)
  - Support of alacritty terminal emulator (​https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty) (#4248)
  - Support of foot terminal emulator (​https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot) (#4251)
  - Support of (alt+)shift+arrow keys in st terminal emulator (st.suckless.org) (#4267)
  - Mouse support in screen: don't check  variable (#4233)
  - mc.ext: support fb2 e-books (#4167)
  - ext.d: use mediainfo to view info about various media files (#4167)
  - Remove OS/distro-specific package-related stuff from source tree (#4217) 

* Fixes

  - FTBFS against NCurses on OS X 10.9.5 (#4181)
  - Segfault on dialog before panels get visible (#4244)
  - Crash if shadow is out of screen (build against NCurses) (#4192)
  - Crash in search (#4222)
  - Crash on startup with enabled subshell in FreeBSD (workaround) (#4213)
  - Hang on start randomly with zsh as subshell (#4198)
  - If command line is invisible it's partially displayed (#4182)
  - Broken handling of zip archives (#4180, #4183)
  - Broken handling of jar files as zip archives (#4223)
  - Timestamps of symlinks, sockets, fifos, etc are not preserved after copy/move (#3985)
  - %view action in the user menu doesn't work on no-exec filesystem (#4242)
  - Hardlinks are not colored by file type or extension (#3375)
  - mcedit: silent macro makes terminal disrupted (#4171)
  - mcedit: disrupting of TAGS file path (#4207)
  - vfs: unable to browse compressed tar archives (#4191)
  - sftpfs vfs: CVE-2021-36370: server fingerprint isn't verified 
    (discovered by AUT-milCERT during an audit of open source software) (#4259)
  - ftpfs vfs: month of file is always January (#4260)
  - Tests: log files are written by libcheck and automake simultaneously (#3986) 


              

Packages


  • mc-4.8.27-bp153.2.3.1