FYI -- Raju
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Caldera Systems, Inc. Security Advisory
Subject: remote attack on pine users
Advisory number: CSSA-1999-036.0
Issue date: 1999 November, 19
Cross reference:
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1. Problem Description
Versions of pine prior to 4.21 had a security problem when viewing
URLs. By sending an email with a specially formatted URL embedded
in it, an attacker could cause arbitrary shell code to be executed
under the account of the victim user.
2. Vulnerable Versions
Systems : up to COL 2.3
Packages: up to pine-4.10-1
3. Solutions
Workaround: not known
The proper solution is to upgrade to the latest packages
rpm -U pine-4.21-1.i386.rpm
4. Location of Fixed Packages
The upgrade packages can be found on Caldera's FTP site at:
ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/updates/2.3/current/RPMS/
The corresponding source code package can be found at:
ftp://ftp.calderaystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/updates/2.3/current/SRPMS
5. Installing Fixed Packages
Upgrade the affected packages with the following commands:
rpm -U pine-4.21-1.i386.rpm
6. Verification
93b2cb3b558735b075392cd639e4edda RPMS/pine-4.21-1.i386.rpm
7f87c9f295c82f65b9412a4c311986c5 SRPMS/pine-4.21-1.src.rpm
7. References
This and other Caldera security resources are located at:
http://www.calderasystems.com/support/security/index.html
This security fix closes Caldera's internal Problem Report 5258
8. Disclaimer
Caldera Systems, Inc. is not responsible for the misuse of any of the
information we provide on this website and/or through our security
advisories. Our advisories are a service to our customers intended to
promote secure installation and use of Caldera OpenLinux.
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