SuSE Security Announcement: Package: pop <= 2000.3.4

Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:33:33 +0200 (MEST)
From: Thomas Biege thomas@suse.de
To: suse-security-announce@suse.com
Subject: [suse-security-announce] SuSE Security Announcement:
pop

                        SuSE Security Announcement

        Package:  pop <= 2000.3.4
        Date:     Thu Jun 08 09:27:54 MEST 2000

        Affected SuSE versions: 6.1-6.4
        Vulnerability Type:     remote compromise
        SuSE default package:   no
        Other affected systems: all unix systems using this package

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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update it as soon as possible or disable the service if you
are using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).

Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected
as well, please contact your vendor for information about this
issue.

Please note that we provide this information on an “as-is” basis
only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any
direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this information
or the installation of the update package.

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1. Problem Description

The qpop 2.53 does not check the mail header for invalid
input.

2. Impact

An attacker could send a mail with a malicously formated mail
header to a person, that reveives it’s mail via qpop 2.53, to
execute code with the privileges of user ‘mail’ at the qpop
server.

3. Solution

Update the package from our FTP server.

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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before
installing: (For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)

AXP:
875ffbab8a189ac3360ab663164fabeb ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.alpha.rpm 
a79256e0063e04172372d5bea0131404 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 
a25cc9e62c856cd73ffe5ec87a510b8b ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.alpha.rpm 
dc7a8b68927ce5d4e292d73389f593b5 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.4/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 

i386:
e8e3d308985ec977ea5e719b32c28395 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/pop-2000.6.8-0.i386.rpm 
5f06d781dea6dc755b34f1079792cd94 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/zq1/pop-2000.6.8-0.src.rpm 
5194b24e2e65e0134c379fec72f5a8f2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.i386.rpm 
8b1290376314f54274a7d78f28e128f2 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 
62ec77feca587ff202a5f8b49f854576 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.i386.rpm 
e15efcd8c79728222628b3f2ac4cfd6a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 

PPC:
7284e772d644288e65d7ea1baa81e55e ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.ppc.rpm 
309dc39b97a1aa0c95bbdd93d965db55 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 
294182bbdabb63a11807387292419ac0 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/n1/pop-2000.6.7-0.ppc.rpm 
09bf4786a163c044d4ab3d614e9783f6 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.4/zq1/pop-2000.6.7-0.src.rpm 

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You can find updates on our ftp-Server:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update for Intel processors 
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update for Alpha processors 

or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html 
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html 

Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html 

Our webpage for security announcements:
http://www.suse.de/security 

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
  security@suse.de

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