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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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