Re: Denial of Service bug in Pine 4.44

[Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>]

On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] Michel Arboi wrote:

>  --- "Martin J. Muench" <mjm () codito de> a écrit : 
> > When opening a MIME encoded mail with a blank boundary, pine
> > will crash.
> [snip]
> > This is no dangerous bug and you can simply delete the received
> > messages within pine.
>
> Just a thought... Could this crash server software? e.g. AV scanners?

They say it can crash MS Exchange:
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/5265.php

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."