-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: pop <= 2000.3.4 Date: Thu Jun 08 09:27:54 MEST 2000 Affected SuSE versions: 6.1-6.4 Vulnerability Type: remote compromise SuSE default package: no Other affected systems: all unix systems using this package ______________________________________________________________________________ A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above. Please update it 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 we provide this information on an "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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 1. Problem Description The qpop 2.53 does not check the mail header for invalid input. 2. Impact An attacker could send a mail with a malicously formated mail header to a person, that reveives it's mail via qpop 2.53, to execute code with the privileges of user 'mail' at the qpop server. 3. Solution Update the package from our FTP server. ______________________________________________________________________________ Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing: (For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates) AXP: 875ffbab8a189ac3360ab663164fabeb ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.alpha.rpm a79256e0063e04172372d5bea0131404 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm a25cc9e62c856cd73ffe5ec87a510b8b ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.alpha.rpm dc7a8b68927ce5d4e292d73389f593b5 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm i386: e8e3d308985ec977ea5e719b32c28395 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/pop-2000.6.8-0.i386.rpm 5f06d781dea6dc755b34f1079792cd94 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/pop-2000.6.8-0.src.rpm 5194b24e2e65e0134c379fec72f5a8f2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.i386.rpm 8b1290376314f54274a7d78f28e128f2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 62ec77feca587ff202a5f8b49f854576 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.i386.rpm e15efcd8c79728222628b3f2ac4cfd6a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm PPC: 7284e772d644288e65d7ea1baa81e55e ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.ppc.rpm 309dc39b97a1aa0c95bbdd93d965db55 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 294182bbdabb63a11807387292419ac0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.ppc.rpm 09bf4786a163c044d4ab3d614e9783f6 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm _____________________________________________________________________________ You can find updates on our ftp-Server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update for Intel processors ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update for Alpha processors or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: http://www.suse.de/ftp.html http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html Our webpage for patches: http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html Our webpage for security announcements: http://www.suse.de/security If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact security@suse.de ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: use-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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