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Pine Message Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA9705
Release Date: 2003-09-11
Popularity: 8,327 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Pine 4.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in Pine, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The first vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when parsing the "message/external-body" type. The problem is that the size of the longest attribute isn't checked, which can result in a buffer overflow if the name is longer than 20K.

The second vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow in the "rfc2231_get_param()" function when parsing email headers.

Both vulnerabilities can be exploited by sending a specially crafted email to a user, which will execute arbitrary code on the system when opened.

The vulnerabilities affect versions 4.56 and earlier.

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