SMTP: Pine Blank MIME Boundary Exception
This signature detects attempts to exploit a known vulnerability in the Pine E-mail client. Pine versions 4.4 and earlier are vulnerable. Attackers can send MIME-encoded e-mails with a blank boundary field to crash the mail client.
Extended Description
Pine is an open source mail user agent distributed by the University of Washington. It is freely available for Unix, Linux, and Microsoft Operating Systems. When a mail is received by pine that contains MIME content, and the value of the MIME boundary is blank, pine becomes unstable. This vulnerability has been discovered to cause a core dump in the pine client, and could be used to deny service to legitimate users of the client.
Affected Products
University_of_washington pine
Short Name
SMTP:EXPLOIT:PINE-BOUNDARY
Severity
Warning
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
None
Category
SMTP
Keywords
Blank Boundary Exception MIME Pine bid:5301
Release Date
04/22/2003
Supported Platforms
srx-branch-12.3
srx-19.3
srx-branch-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.2
srx-branch-19.4
vsrx-19.4
mx-12.3
mx-19.4
vmx-19.4
mx-19.3
vsrx3bsd-19.4
srx-19.4
vsrx-12.3
vmx-19.3
vsrx-19.2
srx-12.3
Sigpack Version
3375
False Positive
Unknown
Vendors
University_of_washington