Subject: PINE PROBLEMI
From: Murat Koc (muratkoc@saneg.itu.edu.tr)
Date: Tue 29 Jun 1999 - 18:32:28 EET DST
SuSE Security Announcement
Package: pine-4.X
Date: Mon Jun 28 23:02:12 CEST 1999
Affected: all Unix operating systems using pine-4.X
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using
this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).
Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as
well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue.
Please note, that that we provide this information on as "as-is" basis only.
There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or
incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of
the update package.
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1. Problem Description
By sending a malicious formated email pine could be tricked into
executing shell scripts or binary programs.
2. Impact
An attacker could force any user (even root), which use pine, to
execute any program s/he wants. This behavior could lead to remote
root compromise of the system.
3. Solution
Install the fixed pine package, which is available from our
ftp server.
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Here are the md5 checksums of the upgrade packages, please verify these
before installing the new packages:
07f319fb589578802af8312414ee0462 pine.rpm (glibc2)
c7b1ca7952c732c37d21205b83981581 pine.rpm (AXP)
c056588e2261a42e3194634795e2c16c pine.rpm (Source)
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You will find the updates on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/pine.rpm (glibc2)
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/pine.rpm (AXP)
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/zq/pine.spm (Source)
A libc5 version isn't available, because SuSE 5.3 uses pine-3.96 per default.
Webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html
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