RHSA-2005:015

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2005-01-12 18:40 - Updated: 2025-11-21 17:28
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: pine security update
Severity
Low
Notes
Topic: An updated Pine package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 to fix a denial of service attack.
Details: Pine is an email user agent. The c-client IMAP client library, as used in Pine 4.44 contains an integer overflow and integer signedness flaw. An attacker could create a malicious IMAP server in such a way that it would cause Pine to crash. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has assigned the name CAN-2003-0297 to this issue. Users of Pine are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
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CVE-2003-0297

c-client IMAP Client, as used in imap-2002b and Pine 4.53, allows remote malicious IMAP servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain large (1) literal and (2) mailbox size values that cause either integer signedness errors or integer overflow errors.

Vendor Fix Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. Use Red Hat Network to download and update your packages. To launch the Red Hat Update Agent, use the following command: up2date For information on how to install packages manually, refer to the following Web page for the System Administration or Customization guide specific to your system: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/ https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005:015
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