New Pine release

[Janina Sajka]

Yes, but I'm waiting for Bill's rpm of it. Compiling pine from source is 
not trivial.

On Thu, 3 Jan 2002, Charles Crawford wrote:

> 	In case you did not see this.
> 
> 
> Subject: Pine 4.44 now available
> 
> This note is to announce the availability of the Pine Message System
> version 4.44. The purpose of this release is to fix a security
> bug with the treatment of quotes in the URL-handling code. The bug
> allows a malicious sender to embed commands in a URL. This bug is
> present in all versions of UNIX Pine. There is no vulnerability from
> this bug in PC-Pine.
> 
> The release notes are available from within Pine ("R" command off the
> Main Menu) and via
> 
>          http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes.html
> and
>          ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/docs/
> 
> Source for the latest Pine release is available in:
> 
>          ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.Z
> and
>          ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pine.tar.gz
> 
> Precompiled binaries for the various systems we have direct access to
> are available in:
> 
>          ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin
> and
>          ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/unix-bin-compressed
> 
> The corresponding PC-Pine distribution is available in:
> 
>          ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/pine/pcpine/pm444w32.zip
> 
> As with all Pine releases, it is important that you carefully test and
> determine for yourself that it performs suitably in your environment
> before placing Pine into production use.
> 
> The Pine Development Team
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

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