CVE-2002-1320 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the Pine email client by sending a message with excessive quotation marks in the From header.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2002-1320?
CVE-2002-1320 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 1 Sep 2004. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Pine 4.44 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and failed restart) via an email message with a From header that contains a large number of quotation marks (").
Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1320?
It affects 1 product.
Products include University of Washington Pine.
How do I fix CVE-2002-1320?
No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1320 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2002-1320 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-1320 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vhmc-868h-cjpg.