SuSE Security Announcement: tnef

11 Jul 2000

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.
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1. Problem Description

  Tnef extracts eMails compressed with MS-Outlook. The compressed file
  includes the path name to which the decompressed data should be
  written.

2. Impact

  By specifing a path name like /etc/passwd and sending a compressed
  mail to root an adversary could gain remote root access to a system
  by overwriting the local password database.
  The same could happen if a mail virus scanner, like AMaVIS, process'
  a malicious mail.

3. Solution

  Update the package from our FTP server.

  It's also possible to use the '-x' option of tnef to specify the
  outputfile.

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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:

AXP:
cc4983da1084c911998ddcc589050ec2  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/ap1/tnef-0-124.alpha.rpm
ae9b2d0e3231ee9ce35ee2fe0bd7788d  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/tnef-0-124.src.rpm

451485d86daa2b45ae897dc88bf8a61b  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/ap1/tnef-0-124.alpha.rpm
4bd689ba7abb7235b84570a90b3875d8  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/tnef-0-124.src.rpm

i386:
5909688f8568eb1f14591c1428235777  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/ap1/tnef-0-124.i386.rpm
5c02ff06d98030541afb10c178a206f3  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/tnef-0-124.src.rpm

58fa8e976df90aa09c30bf8fd5f6b2b5  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/ap1/tnef-0-124.i386.rpm
1a99d0cd8315ae3a1990781b7977c4c6  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/tnef-0-124.src.rpm

PPC:
3be0b423e678923f27c42f8c59c09ab4  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/ap1/tnef-0-124.ppc.rpm
5f7f8c3c025c2f114aa115532e250723  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/zq1/tnef-0-124.src.rpm

b37d6374a7b0147dbd6bf9889ec68367  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/ap1/tnef-0-124.ppc.rpm
695fcd009a345638f049200dc0d6279d  ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/tnef-0-124.src.rpm

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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
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