New Pine release

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Me too; I am waiting for a precompiled Slackware version.


On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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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