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Date:      Fri, 29 Sep 2000 18:52:52 -0400
From:      "Jonathan M. Slivko" <jmslivko@mindspring.com>
To:        "Roman Shterenzon" <roman@xpert.com>, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        <security@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/pine4 Makefile (fwd)
Message-ID:  <002e01c02a68$00fe3900$d04379a5@p4f0i0>
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009291755520.17656-100000@jamus.xpert.com>

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Heh, pine is secure. or, so I think :P

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Roman Shterenzon" <roman@xpert.com>
To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.org>
Cc: <security@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/pine4 Makefile (fwd)


> Perhaps I'll move to mutt, the same command gives only 92 occurrences :)
> Mutt on the other hand has sgid binary installed..
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > It almost killed me to see this:
> >
> > mollari# find pine4.21 -type f | xargs egrep '(sprintf|strcpy|strcat)' |
wc -l
> >     4299
> >
> > Don't use pine - I don't believe it is practical to make it secure. :-(
> >
> > Kris
> >
> > --
> > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.
> >     -- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu>
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:28:48 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
> > To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
> > Subject: cvs commit: ports/mail/pine4 Makefile
> >
> > kris        2000/09/29 00:28:48 PDT
> >
> >   Modified files:
> >     mail/pine4           Makefile
> >   Log:
> >   Mark FORBIDDEN: known buffer overflows exploitable by remote email.
> >
> >   Parenthetically, no software which uses 4299 sprintf/strcpy/strcat
> >   calls can possibly be safe - I don't expect to remove this FORBIDDEN
> >   tag any time soon. :-(
> >
> >   Revision  Changes    Path
> >   1.43      +3 -1      ports/mail/pine4/Makefile
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
> --Roman Shterenzon, UNIX System Administrator and Consultant
> [ Xpert UNIX Systems Ltd., Herzlia, Israel. Tel: +972-9-9522361 ]
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