-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- _____________________________________________________________________________ SuSE Security Announcement Package: pine-4.10 Date: Wed Dec 15 18:32:56 MET 1999 Affected SuSE versions: 5.3 - 6.3 Vulnerability Type: remote command execution SuSE default package: no Other affected systems: all unix systems using the pine prior 4.21 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 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 pine mail agent doesn't filter special shell characters in URLs. 2. Impact An attacker can trick a user using pine to executing shell commands by sending an email with malicious formatted URL embedded in it. 3. Solution Update the package from our FTP server. ______________________________________________________________________________ Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing: bbfa5cb60f8f5c29f18bb14744071953 pine-4.21-11.alpha.rpm (6.1, AXP) b2980666737dd4a4db46e1c3d3c7aea0 pine-4.21-11.i386.rpm (5.3, x86) d70ef356f093683c85cba53cc573c1b5 pine-4.10-40.i386.rpm (6.0, x86) 7286ed1525c94a7b36c7a2c68ccb4890 pine-4.21-11.i386.rpm (6.1, x86) 159d028af3aaca959cada37c7a68cc07 pine-4.21-11.i386.rpm (6.2, x86) df36f3e6da96dc4c6a5811302e5b926f pine-4.21-13.i386.rpm (6.3, x86) ______________________________________________________________________________ You can find updates on our ftp-Server: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/pine-4.21-11.alpha.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/5.3/n1/pine-4.21-11.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.0/n1/pine-4.10-40.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/pine-4.21-11.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/pine-4.21-11.i386.rpm ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/pine-4.21-13.i386.rpm or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors: http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/inland.html http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/ftp/ausland.html or http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/germ_mirrors.html http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html Our webpage for patches: http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/updates/index.html or http://www.suse.de/en/support/download/updates/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: suse-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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