> BTW Paul are you serious about older versions of pine running attached
> shell scripts?? That's *so* broken.
There was a buffer overflow in Pine's (and mutt's IIRC) handling
of MIME headers as one stage.
A specially crafted, long, Content-Type: header (or similar)
could overflow the stack and allow arbitrary code to be run.
Nasty.
Fixed _really_ quickly of course...
I'm sure www.securityfocus.com will have details in their archives
somewhere.
Later,
Kenn
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