University of Washington Pine up to 4.56 MIME Type display_parameters memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in University of Washington Pine up to 4.56 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function display_parameters of the component MIME Type Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in PINE before 4.58 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed message/external-body MIME type.

The bug was discovered 08/25/2003. The weakness was disclosed 09/10/2003 by zen-parse (Website). The advisory is available at redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2003-0720 since 09/02/2003. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by sorbo in ANSI C and been published 5 days after the advisory. The exploit is available at darkircop.org. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 17 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 13805 (SUSE-SA:2003:037: pine), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family SuSE Local Security Checks.

Upgrading to version 4.58 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 2369.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (13150), Tenable (13805) and Exploit-DB (99). The entry 20823 is pretty similar.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 13805
Nessus Name: SUSE-SA:2003:037: pine
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OpenVAS ID: 52525
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: pine, zh-pine, iw-pine
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09/03/2019 +1846 days 🔍

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Vendor: washington.edu

Advisory: redhat.com
Researcher: zen-parse
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2003-0720 (🔍)
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X-Force: 13150
Vulnerability Center: 21935 - University of Washington PINE Prior to 4.58 Buffer Overflow Remote Arbitrary Code Execution, Medium
SecurityFocus: 8588 - Pine Message/External-Body Type Attribute Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 9705 - Pine Message Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 9003 - Pine display_parameters() Function Overflow

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 08/15/2014 00:59
Updated: 09/03/2019 09:12
Changes: 08/15/2014 00:59 (75), 09/03/2019 09:12 (19)
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