-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : pine SUMMARY : URL handler vulnerability DATE : 2002-01-31 12:01:00 ID : CLA-2002:460 RELEVANT RELEASES : 5.0, prg graficos, ecommerce, 5.1, 7.0 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Pine is a mail and news text based client developed by the Washington University[1]. A vulnerability[2] in the pine URL handler was discovered that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary shell commands in the user's machine by encapsulating them in a URL using environment variables. This vulnerability only affects users whith the msg-view-url option enabled (which is not the default). It was originally discovered[3] by Jim Hebert <jhebertat_private> on November 18, 1999, rediscovered by zen-parse <zen-parseat_private> on October 20, 2001 and reannounced to Bugtraq on January 5, 2002. SOLUTION All pine users should upgrade. REFERENCES: 1.http://www.washington.edu/pine/ 2.http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3815 3.http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/35296 DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/SRPMS/pine-4.44L-1U50_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/pine-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/pico-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.0/i386/pilot-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/SRPMS/pine-4.44L-1U51_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/pine-4.44L-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/pilot-4.44L-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/5.1/i386/pico-4.44L-1U51_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/pine-4.44L-1U70_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/pico-4.44L-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/pine-4.44L-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/pilot-4.44L-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/SRPMS/pine-4.44L-1U50_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/pine-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/pico-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/ecommerce/i386/pilot-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/SRPMS/pine-4.44L-1U50_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/pine-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/pico-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/ferramentas/graficas/i386/pilot-4.44L-1U50_1cl.i386.rpm ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS Users of Conectiva Linux version 6.0 or higher may use apt to perform upgrades of RPM packages: - add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list if it is not there yet (you may also use linuxconf to do this): rpm [cncbr] ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br 6.0/conectiva updates (replace 6.0 with the correct version number if you are not running CL6.0) - run: apt-get update - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions on how to import it can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- subscribe: conectiva-updates-subscribeat_private unsubscribe: conectiva-updates-unsubscribeat_private -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8WU7f42jd0JmAcZARAnIWAJ9lexul5EiE+gOnfBg4igYrBu+33wCfa/GL uPckZK7hdjwN5ChNPd0du7o= =1pYS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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