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SuSE Security Announcement
Package: tnef < 0-124
Date: Mon Jul 10 19:19:16 CEST 2000
Affected SuSE versions: 6.3-6.4
Vulnerability Type: remote compromise
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all unix systems using this package
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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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