CVE-2002-1320 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Pine email client versions 4.44 and earlier. Remote attackers can trigger a core dump and prevent the application from restarting by sending an email with an excessively long string of quotation marks in the "From" header. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. While there is an ExploitDB entry for a "Heap Corruption" related to Pine 4.x "From:" headers, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.98CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:3.98:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine:4.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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