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FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:05 - The pine port, versions previous to pine-4.40, handles URLs in messages insecurely. PINE allows users to launch a web browser to visit a URL embedded in a message. Due to a programming error, PINE does not properly escape meta-characters in the URL before passing it to the command shell as an argument to the web browser.

FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:05 - The pine port, versions previous to pine-4.40, handles URLs in messages insecurely. PINE allows users to launch a web browser to visit a URL embedded in a message. Due to a programming error, PINE does not properly escape meta-characters in the URL before passing it to the command shell as an argument to the web browser.