Eudora executes (Java) URL

From: Stout, Bill (StoutBat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 07 1998 - 10:40:54 PDT

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    Eudora Pro 4.0 and 4.0.1 will execute Java from a URL.
    
    "The Eudora flaw came to light just a little more than a week after
    security researchers announced a similar problem in versions of
    Microsoft's Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail programs and in
    Netscape's Mail program. The Eudora vulnerability was brought to light
    earlier this week by Richard M. Smith, president of Phar Lap Software, a
    Cambridge, Mass.-based maker of operating system software and products
    for Microsoft's MS-DOS, the operating system that predated Windows."
    http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/business/docs/internet07.htm
    
    "You may have read recently that there is potential for unauthorized
    programs to be run on your system through the use of hostile Java
    scripts and/or applets. This problem affects users of Eudora Pro Email
    4.0 and 4.0.1, as well as Eudora Pro CommCenter 4.0 and 4.0.1. Note that
    Eudora Light users and users of previous versions of Eudora Pro are not
    susceptible to these Java attacks..."
    http://eudora.qualcomm.com/security.html
    
    Bill Stout
    



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