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vendor:
Pine
by:
SecurityFocus
7.5
CVSS
HIGH
Pine MIME Boundary Buffer Overflow
119
CWE
Product Name: Pine
Affected Version From: 4.21
Affected Version To: 4.21
Patch Exists: YES
Related CWE: CVE-2002-0392
CPE: a:uw:pine
Metasploit: https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/apache-httpd-cve-2002-0392/, https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/http-apache2-chunked-transfer-int-bof/, https://www.rapid7.com/db/vulnerabilities/apache-httpd-1_3_x-apache-chunked-encoding-vulnerability-cve-2002-0392/
Other Scripts: N/A
Tags: N/A
CVSS Metrics: N/A
Nuclei References: N/A
Nuclei Metadata: N/A
Platforms Tested: Unix, Linux, Microsoft Operating Systems
2002

Pine MIME Boundary Buffer Overflow

Pine is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when a mail is received with a blank MIME boundary. This can cause a core dump in the pine client, and could be used to deny service to legitimate users of the client.

Mitigation:

Upgrade to the latest version of Pine.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5301/info

Pine is an open source mail user agent distributed by the University of Washington. It is freely available for Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Operating Systems.

When a mail is received by pine that contains MIME content, and the value of the MIME boundary is blank, pine becomes unstable. This vulnerability has been discovered to cause a core dump in the pine client, and could be used to deny service to legitimate users of the client.

Sending an email to a pine user containing MIME content with the following fields set as specified will cause the crash:

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=""
Mime-Version: 1.0

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