Certainly Eudora 1.5.4 generates divide by zero problems with bad dates, these can all be fixed by deleting the *.toc files and manually editing the mbx/spool files (no corruption seen here) and generating correct date fields. -- Alan Thew alan.thewat_private Computing Services,University of Liverpool Fax: +44 151 794-4442 On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Chris Owen wrote: >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 >> shore.net technical support >> (781) 593-3110 x136 >> ----------------------------------- >> > >-- >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Chris Owen ~ Lottery: A stupidity tax >PO Box 1985 ~ owencat_private >Garden City, KS 67846 ~ http://www.gardencity.net/~owenc/ >Voice: (316) 275-1900 ~ ftp://ftp.gardencity.net/pub/owenc/ >Fax: (316) 275-0313 ~ 88 FA CF C6 65 23 63 C1 6E 80 AE 0B 51 C0 22 36 >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >
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