SuSE Security Announcement: pine (SuSE-SA:2002:046)

From: Thomas Biege (thomasat_private)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 03:05:38 PST

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                            SuSE Security Announcement
    
            Package:                pine
            Announcement-ID:        SuSE-SA:2002:046
            Date:                   Monday, Nov 25th 2002 10:30 MEST
            Affected products:      7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.0, 8.1
                                    SuSE Linux Database Server
                                    SuSE eMail Server 3.1
                                    SuSE eMail Server III
                                    SuSE Firewall Adminhost VPN
                                    SuSE Linux Admin-CD for Firewall
                                    SuSE Firewall on CD 2 - VPN
                                    SuSE Firewall on CD 2
                                    SuSE Linux Enterprise Server for S/390
                                    SuSE Linux Connectivity Server
                                    SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 7 for IA32
                                    SuSE Linux Office Server
            Vulnerability Type:     remote denial-of-service
            Severity (1-10):        4
            SuSE default package:   yes (7.1 - 8.0)
                                    no  (8.1)
            Cross References:       none
    
        Content of this advisory:
            1) security vulnerability resolved:
                 - heap buffer overflow while parsing mail address
               problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information
            2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds:
                 - sparc distribution
                 - WindowMaker
            3) standard appendix (further information)
    
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
    1)  problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information
    
        Pine, Program for Internet News and Email, is a well known and widely
        used eMail client.
        While parsing and escaping characters of eMail addresses pine does not
        allocate enough memory for storing the escaped mailbox part of an
        address. This results in a buffer overflow on the heap that will make
        pine crash. The offending eMail can just be deleted manually or by using
        another mail user agent.
    
        A possible temporary workaround is to filter the respective header
        lines by a mail delivery agent (such as procmail).
    
        Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its
        integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement.
        Then, install the package using the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm" to apply
        the update.
        Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages
        are being offered to install from the maintenance web.
    
    
    
        Intel i386 Platform:
    
        SuSE-8.1:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/pine-4.44-224.i586.rpm
          8c32d5571d7488e31f693a884dedb81e
        patch rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/pine-4.44-224.i586.patch.rpm
          467b8b318958b0ead3f30fa7b1f5a9a0
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/pine-4.44-224.src.rpm
          9b1ff436719cf9752cda3ddd711e80a7
    
        SuSE-8.0:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/n1/pine-4.44-222.i386.rpm
          01d9e82164a5ce4037b84be1b2ed4228
        patch rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/n1/pine-4.44-222.i386.patch.rpm
          162c4265909af7805f7aeaf3e12e8763
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/pine-4.44-222.src.rpm
          d724e02b1ea3783e5bfb01ae9728d7cf
    
        SuSE-7.3:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/n1/pine-4.33-266.i386.rpm
          140c58adf7d0b2113d5bbbbb20de67e2
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.3/zq1/pine-4.33-266.src.rpm
          100c86e88ce357b0efacf7dfe2ab592c
    
        SuSE-7.2:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/n1/pine-4.33-266.i386.rpm
          bd44232250b3def07cab81064dad11f2
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.2/zq1/pine-4.33-266.src.rpm
          e28daa1f2d66135fcf5951c9b2dc19be
    
        SuSE-7.1:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/n1/pine-4.33-263.i386.rpm
          9bdd3394336a786b0711b8e98ab4a268
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/zq1/pine-4.33-263.src.rpm
          630478b751a24e86c52fe645be9365c4
    
    
    
        Sparc Platform:
    
        SuSE-7.3:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/n1/pine-4.33-97.sparc.rpm
          5187b311c27f043178a12ae186d228a6
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/sparc/update/7.3/zq1/pine-4.33-97.src.rpm
          9616303edadfd899785f3ac12d2dc02a
    
    
    
        AXP Alpha Platform:
    
        SuSE-7.1:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/n1/pine-4.33-85.alpha.rpm
          f5155d79236e3ec15c463f586f731c17
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/7.1/zq1/pine-4.33-85.src.rpm
          75365b21b97c8a2f722d95491f62d305
    
    
    
    
        PPC Power PC Platform:
    
        SuSE-7.3:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/n1/pine-4.33-143.ppc.rpm
          98955d956701d7c6c3e0522468377044
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.3/zq1/pine-4.33-143.src.rpm
          d4cdfbf180711ae6e9bab31b87cbb3bd
    
        SuSE-7.1:
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/n1/pine-4.33-141.ppc.rpm
          0b0512af4bdffc654bbd1774c2c8f8a9
        source rpm(s):
        ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/7.1/zq1/pine-4.33-141.src.rpm
          0ee371a8935abe58aa53221606960bbe
    
    
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
    2)  Pending vulnerabilities in SuSE Distributions and Workarounds:
    
        - sparc distribution
          We have moved the update directories for the SuSE SPARC distributions
          7.0 and 7.1 as well as the distribution directory for 7.1 to the
          discontinued/ tree on ftp.suse.com. We urge all of the sparc users to
          upgrade to the SuSE-7.3-sparc distribution, the latest in the row for
          the sparc platform. Resource limitations keep us from timely providing
          update packages for the older sparc distribution.
    
        - WindowMaker
          A bug was found in the image processing code of windowmaker.
          It could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code as the user
          running windowmaker by tricking the user into viewing special
          crafted malicious image files. New packages are currently being
          built and will be available soon.
    
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
    3)  standard appendix: authenticity verification, additional information
    
      - Package authenticity verification:
    
        SuSE update packages are available on many mirror ftp servers all over
        the world. While this service is being considered valuable and important
        to the free and open source software community, many users wish to be
        sure about the origin of the package and its content before installing
        the package. There are two verification methods that can be used
        independently from each other to prove the authenticity of a downloaded
        file or rpm package:
        1) md5sums as provided in the (cryptographically signed) announcement.
        2) using the internal gpg signatures of the rpm package.
    
        1) execute the command
            md5sum <name-of-the-file.rpm>
           after you downloaded the file from a SuSE ftp server or its mirrors.
           Then, compare the resulting md5sum with the one that is listed in the
           announcement. Since the announcement containing the checksums is
           cryptographically signed (usually using the key securityat_private),
           the checksums show proof of the authenticity of the package.
           We disrecommend to subscribe to security lists which cause the
           email message containing the announcement to be modified so that
           the signature does not match after transport through the mailing
           list software.
           Downsides: You must be able to verify the authenticity of the
           announcement in the first place. If RPM packages are being rebuilt
           and a new version of a package is published on the ftp server, all
           md5 sums for the files are useless.
    
        2) rpm package signatures provide an easy way to verify the authenticity
           of an rpm package. Use the command
            rpm -v --checksig <file.rpm>
           to verify the signature of the package, where <file.rpm> is the
           filename of the rpm package that you have downloaded. Of course,
           package authenticity verification can only target an un-installed rpm
           package file.
           Prerequisites:
            a) gpg is installed
            b) The package is signed using a certain key. The public part of this
               key must be installed by the gpg program in the directory
               ~/.gnupg/ under the user's home directory who performs the
               signature verification (usually root). You can import the key
               that is used by SuSE in rpm packages for SuSE Linux by saving
               this announcement to a file ("announcement.txt") and
               running the command (do "su -" to be root):
                gpg --batch; gpg < announcement.txt | gpg --import
               SuSE Linux distributions version 7.1 and thereafter install the
               key "buildat_private" upon installation or upgrade, provided that
               the package gpg is installed. The file containing the public key
               is placed at the top-level directory of the first CD (pubring.gpg)
               and at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/pubring.gpg-build.suse.de .
    
    
      - SuSE runs two security mailing lists to which any interested party may
        subscribe:
    
        suse-securityat_private
            -   general/linux/SuSE security discussion.
                All SuSE security announcements are sent to this list.
                To subscribe, send an email to
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            -   SuSE's announce-only mailing list.
                Only SuSE's security announcements are sent to this list.
                To subscribe, send an email to
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        For general information or the frequently asked questions (faq)
        send mail to:
            <suse-security-infoat_private> or
            <suse-security-faqat_private> respectively.
    
        =====================================================================
        SuSE's security contact is <securityat_private> or <securityat_private>.
        The <securityat_private> public key is listed below.
        =====================================================================
    ______________________________________________________________________________
    
        The information in this advisory may be distributed or reproduced,
        provided that the advisory is not modified in any way. In particular,
        it is desired that the clear-text signature shows proof of the
        authenticity of the text.
        SuSE Linux AG makes no warranties of any kind whatsoever with respect
        to the information contained in this security advisory.
    
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    Bye,
         Thomas
    -- 
      Thomas Biege <thomasat_private>
      SuSE Linux AG,Deutschherrnstr. 15-19,90429 Nuernberg
      Function: Security Support & Auditing
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