Pine Environment Variable Expansion in URLS Vulnerability

BID:810

Info

Pine Environment Variable Expansion in URLS Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 810
Class: Access Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 18 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 18 1999 12:00AM
Credit: First posted to BugTraq by Jim Hebert <[email protected]> on Nov 18, 1999.
Vulnerable: University of Washington Pine 4.21
+ Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
+ Redhat Linux 7.0 alpha
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
+ Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
+ Slackware Linux 7.1
+ Slackware Linux 7.0
University of Washington Pine 4.20
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 6.0
Not Vulnerable:

Exploit / POC

Pine Environment Variable Expansion in URLS Vulnerability

See discussion.

Solution / Fix

Pine Environment Variable Expansion in URLS Vulnerability

Solution:
Caldera Linux:

Obtain the rpm from:

ftp://ftp.calderasystems.com/pub/OpenLinux/updates/2.3/current/RPMS/

To install the rpm.

rpm -U pine-4.21-1.i386.rpm

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References

Pine Environment Variable Expansion in URLS Vulnerability

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