-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- PACKAGE : pine SUMMARY : Denial of Service (DoS) DATE : 2002-12-04 16:36:00 ID : CLA-2002:551 RELEVANT RELEASES : 7.0, 8 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION Pine is a mail and news text based client developed by the Washington University[1]. Linus Sjöberg (lsjobergat_private) discovered[2] a vulnerability that allows an attacker to send a fully legal e-mail message with the "From:" header crafted in such a way that will crash pine on startup. By exploiting this, an attacker can prevent the pine user of starting the program to manage his/her mailbox. It was not confirmed if it is possible to execute arbitrary code by exploiting this vulnerability, but such a possibility exists. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned[3] the name CAN-2002-1320 to this issue. Please notice that this new version of pine (4.50) includes several new features and other bugfixes, as documented in the official changelog[4]. SOLUTION All pine users should upgrade. REFERENCES: 1.http://www.washington.edu/pine/ 2.http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103668430620531&w=2 3.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1320 4.http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes/4.44-to-4.50.html DIRECT DOWNLOAD LINKS TO THE UPDATED PACKAGES ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/pico-4.50L-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/pilot-4.50L-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/pine-4.50L-1U70_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/pine-4.50L-1U70_1cl.src.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/pico-4.50L-1U80_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/pilot-4.50L-1U80_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/pine-4.50L-1U80_1cl.i386.rpm ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/pine-4.50L-1U80_1cl.src.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 iD8DBQE97kxN42jd0JmAcZARAmqoAKDy/g18XfzCC+Tvf2FnCTjNhO/uHQCfbO6e bOjmOhFAgdQc2EmhFO9qWWg= =ILF+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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