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Turbolinux Security Advisory TLSA-2002-85
http://www/turbolinux.co.jp/security/
security-team@turbolinux.co.jp
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Pine
Service stop of pine
Release date : 2002-12-11
Solution: package : pine-4.33-4
Problematical point
* Pine does not allot sufficient memory, the heap buffer overflows.
There is a possibility of receiving DoS attack from remote unauthorized user.
Solution:
Using turbopkg command, please do automatic operation update.
When necessary, update is done automatically.
Use the following command to verify the version currently installed.
# rpm -qa | grep package name
When automatic operation update is used, those which are presently are installed update all objects.
Select the package, and use the rpm command to select when you would like to update.
Execution example
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1. In super user modification
$ su -
2. Password of super user input
Password:
3. Starting the turbopkg
# turbopkg
4. Menu selection
" Update "
" FTP server "
" Update sight "
Optional sight selection
5. In general user modification
# exit
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< Turbolinux 8 Server >
< Turbolinux 8 Workstation >
< Turbolinux 7 Server >
< Turbolinux 7 Workstation >
< Turbolinux Server 6.5 >
< Turbolinux Advanced Server 6 >
< Turbolinux Server 6.1 >
* Because the pine package is not recorded, update is not necessary.
< Turbolinux Workstation 6.0 >
pine-4.33-4.i386.rpm
* Upon the maintenance of our company FTP sight, we determined that update of the turbopkg is neccesary. Details the below-mentioned URL reference.
http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/download/zabom.html
Package updates:
http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/update/
