Description
Pine 4.44 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and failed restart) via an email message with a From header that contains a large number of quotation marks (").
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Pine 4.x - 'From:' Heap Corruption EDB-21985 · dos · Nov 7, 2002 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- RHSA-2002:270 vendor-advisory
- MDKSA-2002:084 vendor-advisory
- pine-from-header-dos(10555) vdb-entry
- 6120 vdb-entry
- 20021107 Remote pine Denial of Service mailing-list
- ESA-20021127-032 vendor-advisory
- SuSE-SA:2002:046 vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2002:271 vendor-advisory
- 20021202 GLSA: pine mailing-list
- CLA-2002:551 vendor-advisory