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Re: pine overflow


From: Jose Nazario <jose () biocserver BIOC cwru edu>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 13:54:25 -0500 (EST)

On 21 Feb 2002, Andrei Tudorache wrote:

Here are some tests I've made in << PINE 4.21 >>.

grab the latest pine sources. 4.21 is old.

-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      2680348 Aug 24
2000 /usr/bin/pine

look and see if the newer version is vulnerable to this, and then see if
you can craft an email from a remote user with such an absurdly long and
malformed attachment name to remotely overflow it. that would be
fun/interesting.

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