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Date:      Sat, 16 Jun 2001 15:47:39 -0600
From:      Irwan Hadi <irwanhadi@phxby.com>
To:        Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pine security
Message-ID:  <20010616154739.C1768@phxby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010616131740.N4205-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>; from marcus@marcuscom.com on Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:24:00AM -0600
References:  <20010616121259.A69988-100000@pukruppa.de> <20010616131740.N4205-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com>

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On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:24:00AM -0600, Joe Clarke wrote:

> 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.

If you said that including OS type in the header cause a security problem, and
this was "most recently" noticed, I don't think this is correct, because at
least from 4 years ago I start "playing" internet, pine always put the OS type
in the header. Why people just "noticed" it now ?


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