Pine 4.02 PATCH "A" 07 August 1998 The patch file "pine4.02A.patch" is a small set of patches to be applied to the Pine Mail System version 4.02 (released 21 July 1998). These patches address only problems associated with receiving a mail message that contains inordinately long MIME header values. Such extremely uncommon messages will typically cause Pine to crash, but it is speculated that the problems could be exploited such that they allow the message sender to execute an arbitrary command on behalf of the receiving user (note, though, with no more privilege than the receiving user). To our knowledge, this has yet to be demonstrated in practice. That said, if you are experiencing problems or are concerned about this problem, the Pine Team has provided this patch as a means of greatly reducing your exposure to this specific problem. The patch file itself is in context-diff format, and should be understood by the "patch" utility. To update Pine 4.02 source, simply copy the patch file into the same directory as the pine4.02 source tree and type: patch -p < pine4.02A.patch After patch completes, verify that there were no problems and rebuild. As always, thanks for your interest and support. Sincerely, The Pine Development Team