Re: Denial of Service bug in Pine 4.44

From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 16:24:47 PDT

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On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, [iso-8859-1] Michel Arboi wrote:

>  --- "Martin J. Muench" <mjmat_private> a écrit : 
> > When opening a MIME encoded mail with a blank boundary, pine
> > will crash.
> [snip]
> > This is no dangerous bug and you can simply delete the received
> > messages within pine.
> 
> Just a thought... Could this crash server software? e.g. AV scanners?

They say it can crash MS Exchange:
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/5265.php

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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