RE: [ILUG] Fwd: will the love ever cease? <unix now targeted>

From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Tue 09 May 2000 - 13:25:46 IST


> 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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