Re: Eudora exploit (was Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS98-008))

From: Chris Owen (listsonlyat_private)
Date: Wed Jul 29 1998 - 11:11:06 PDT

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    On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Troy Ablan wrote:
    
    > At least some versions of Eudora Light prior to 3.0.5 return a Divide by
    > Zero error and immediately close when trying to pop a message that has a
    > ctime of 0 (Read as Dec 31 1969 19:00 EST (-0500)).  This apparently
    > corrupts the .mbx file, and both the message on the pop server and the
    > .mbx file must be manually removed (or hacked) in order to proceed.  I
    > can't reproduce this problem with version 3.0.5, and I don't have
    > available an older copy to re-try this.
    >
    > I discovered this anomoly doing ISP tech support for a customer.
    >
    > Can anyone confirm or deny this?
    
    I know that with version up to at least 3.0.3, setting the clock forward
    100 years will cause Eudora to cause a segmentation fault when sending
    mail.  Spent hours on this one ;-]
    
    Chris
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Brett Glass <brettat_private>
    >
    >
    > >InfoWorld, at
    > http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980728.ehbugs.htm,
    > >claims that the MIME filename overflow exploit affects Eudora. Is this
    > correct?
    > >This is the first I've heard of that mailer being vulnerable.
    >
    >
    > -----------------------------------
    > Troy Ablan
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