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Re: pine overflow


From: "Kurt Seifried" <bugtraq () seifried org>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:35:35 -0700

Stupid question: Is there even a small chance of it being exploitable ?

Based on pine's previous track record: yes.

A short list (there is more):

http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-1998-09.html

http://www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/slackware_advisory-1801.html

http://www.washington.edu/pine/changes/4.30-to-4.31.html
changelog entry: Fixed a few buffer overflow possibilities

grep the changelog for "buffer overflow". Yoikes. 
 
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