SMTP Preprocessor question

[Avery Rozar <avery.rozar () insecure-it com>]

Hello,
I'm looking for some help understanding the SMTP preprocessor. For example.
the attached pcap is from a hit on "smtp: Attempted data header buffer
overflow, sid: 2; gid: 124". Digging in the PCAP the only thing (other than
this looks like junk email) I can come up with is the "List" command to
unsubscribe looks like it's longer than the 512 specified in the
"max_command_line_len" parameter. Am I correct in this finding, or way off?

Here is the preprocessor.rules:
alert ( msg: "SMTP_DATA_HDR_OVERFLOW"; sid: 2; gid: 124; rev: 1; metadata:
rule-type preproc, service smtp, policy security-ips drop ;
classtype:attempted-admin; reference:cve,2002-1337;
reference:cve,2010-4344; )

Here is the Snort config file:
# SMTP normalization and anomaly detection.  For more information, see
README.SMTP
preprocessor smtp: ports { 25 465 587 691 } \
    inspection_type stateful \
    b64_decode_depth 0 \
    qp_decode_depth 0 \
    bitenc_decode_depth 0 \
    uu_decode_depth 0 \
    log_mailfrom \
    log_rcptto \
    log_filename \
    log_email_hdrs \
    normalize cmds \
    normalize_cmds { ATRN AUTH BDAT CHUNKING DATA DEBUG EHLO EMAL ESAM ESND
ESOM ETRN EVFY } \
    normalize_cmds { EXPN HELO HELP IDENT MAIL NOOP ONEX QUEU QUIT RCPT
RSET SAML SEND SOML } \
    normalize_cmds { STARTTLS TICK TIME TURN TURNME VERB VRFY X-ADAT X-DRCP
X-ERCP X-EXCH50 } \
    normalize_cmds { X-EXPS X-LINK2STATE XADR XAUTH XCIR XEXCH50 XGEN
XLICENSE XQUE XSTA XTRN XUSR } \
    max_command_line_len 512 \
    max_header_line_len 1000 \
    max_response_line_len 512 \
    alt_max_command_line_len 260 { MAIL } \
    alt_max_command_line_len 300 { RCPT } \
    alt_max_command_line_len 500 { HELP HELO ETRN EHLO } \
    alt_max_command_line_len 255 { EXPN VRFY ATRN SIZE BDAT DEBUG EMAL ESAM
ESND ESOM EVFY IDENT NOOP RSET } \
    alt_max_command_line_len 246 { SEND SAML SOML AUTH TURN ETRN DATA RSET
QUIT ONEX QUEU STARTTLS TICK TIME TURNME VERB X-EXPS X-LINK2STATE XADR
XAUTH XCIR XEXCH50 XGEN XLICENSE XQUE XSTA XTRN XUSR } \
    valid_cmds { ATRN AUTH BDAT CHUNKING DATA DEBUG EHLO EMAL ESAM ESND
ESOM ETRN EVFY } \
    valid_cmds { EXPN HELO HELP IDENT MAIL NOOP ONEX QUEU QUIT RCPT RSET
SAML SEND SOML } \
    valid_cmds { STARTTLS TICK TIME TURN TURNME VERB VRFY X-ADAT X-DRCP
X-ERCP X-EXCH50 } \
    valid_cmds { X-EXPS X-LINK2STATE XADR XAUTH XCIR XEXCH50 XGEN XLICENSE
XQUE XSTA XTRN XUSR } \
    xlink2state { enabled }

Attachment: tcpdump.Z0.log.1448341337.pcap
Description:

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