Pine Malformed Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:1687

Info

Pine Malformed Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1687
Class: Failure to Handle Exceptional Conditions
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Sep 13 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Sep 13 2000 12:00AM
Credit: First made public in FreeBSD advisory FreeBSD-SA-00:47, published on September 13, 2000.
Vulnerable: University of Washington Pine 4.21
+ Redhat Linux 7.0 i386
 + Redhat Linux 7.0 alpha
 + Redhat Linux 6.2 sparc
 + Redhat Linux 6.2 i386
 + Redhat Linux 6.2 alpha
 + Slackware Linux 7.1
+ Slackware Linux 7.0
University of Washington Pine 4.20
+ Turbolinux Turbolinux Workstation 6.0
University of Washington Pine 4.10
+ Redhat Linux 6.1 sparc
 + Redhat Linux 6.1 i386
 + Redhat Linux 6.1 alpha
 + Redhat Linux 6.0 sparc
 + Redhat Linux 6.0 alpha
 + Redhat Linux 6.0
+ SuSE Linux 6.1 alpha
 + SuSE Linux 6.1
University of Washington Pine 4.0.4
+ Redhat Linux 5.2 sparc
 + Redhat Linux 5.2 i386
 + Redhat Linux 5.2 alpha
 University of Washington Pine 4.0.2
University of Washington Pine 4.0 x
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Pine Malformed Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

Pine is one of the most popular unix console email clients. If a message within a mailbox accessed by pine has a malformed X-Keywords line (X-Keywords is part of the email header), the client will crash without visible reason when attempting to parse the mailbox file. This is due to a bug in the c-client library, which is used for parsing the mailbox files. The result of this being exploited is a denial of service to the recipient of the email until the malicious malformed message is removed.

Exploit / POC

Pine Malformed Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

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Solution / Fix

Pine Malformed Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
RedHat, FreeBSD and Mandrake have released patches for this vulnerability:


University of Washington Pine 4.0.4

University of Washington Pine 4.10

University of Washington Pine 4.21

References

Pine Malformed Header Denial of Service Vulnerability

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