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Re: MDKSA-2000:073 - pine update

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kris Kennaway)
Thu Nov 23 17:53:43 2000

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Date:         Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:57:47 -0800
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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FREEBSD.ORG>
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              2000 at 06:19:42PM -0700

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:19:42PM -0700, Linux Mandrake Security Team wrot=
e:

> Problem Description:
>=20
>  By adding specific headers to messages, the pine mail reader could be
>  made to exit with an error message when users attempted to manipulate
>  mail folders containing those messages.

The most recent problem was worse than that; remote code
execution. This seems to describe an older vulnerability in pine.

See the following advisories for reference, on

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories:

-rw-r--r--  1 1001  207  4196 Sep 17 08:51 FreeBSD-SA-00:47.pine.asc
-rw-r--r--  1 1001  207  4136 Oct 30 23:04 FreeBSD-SA-00:59.pine.asc

Kris

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