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Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 13:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: "Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>
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Subject: Re: pine security
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pine has had some security exploits.  Most recently it was noticed that
pine included the compiler and OS type in its message ids.  This has been
changed.  Take a look at this message.  I use the latest pine-4.33_1 port,
and have never had any problems.

Joe Clarke

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Peter Ulrich (Uli) Kruppa wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed the latest port of the mail-client pine
> (which I happily use for about two years now) and received a
> warning by the FreeBSD Security Officer. It said pine had
> been abused by some crackers.
>
> Which client would be the Security Officer's choice then?
>
> Uli.
>
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