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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5301/info
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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.
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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.
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Sending an email to a pine user containing MIME content with the following fields set as specified will cause the crash:
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Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=""
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Mime-Version: 1.0 |