Re: Pine _again_ :)

[ambrose () MMAE ENGR UCF EDU (Ambrose Feinstein)]

> PINE can be made to crash if /var/spool/mail/<who> contains a line along
> the lines of
>
> "From AAAAAAAAAAAA" where the A's number ~10000. If you are lucky your
> MTA will truncate this line safely, preventing remote exploit.

using sendmail (actually smail on this host) to send myself a message
with a 10k arg for -f, i see that mailx (solaris 2.6 sparc) handles
such huge headers poorly.  it mangled the previous message in my
mailbox, and trying to reply to the offending message raised sigsegv.