RHSA-2002:271
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2003-01-03 19:15
Modified
2025-09-25 11:29
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: pine security update
Notes
Topic
A vulnerability in Pine version 4.44 and earlier releases can cause
Pine to crash when sent a carefully crafted email.
[Updated 06 Feb 2003]
Added fixed packages for Advanced Workstation 2.1
Details
Pine, developed at the University of Washington, is a tool for reading,
sending, and managing electronic messages (including mail and news).
A security problem was found in versions of Pine 4.44 and earlier. In these
verions, Pine does not allocate enough memory for the parsing and escaping
of the "From" header, allowing a carefully crafted email to cause a
buffer overflow on the heap. This will result in Pine crashing.
All users of Pine on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server are advised to
update to these errata packages containing a patch to version 4.44
of Pine that fixes this vulnerability.
Terms of Use
This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
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