Eudora attachment spoofing bypass warning messages
| eudora-attachment-spoofing-bypass (9793) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Eudora could allow a remote attacker to use a specially-crafted or malformed attachment name or attachment directory path name to spoof a file extension. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause attachment warning messages to be bypassed when a user opens an attachment with a spoofed file extension, which could lead to the execution of malicious programs on the victim's computer.
Consequences:
Bypass Security
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Mon Nov 24 2003 - 21:17:52 CST: Eudora 6.0.1 LaunchProtect.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed May 21 2003 - 23:54:13 CDT: Eudora 5.2.1 attachment spoof.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Nov 12 2003 - 18:40:46 CST: Eudora 6.0.1 attachment spoof.
- BugTraq Mailing List, Wed Nov 13 2002 - 14:44:50 CST : Eudora 5.2 attachment spoof .
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Thu Mar 18 2004 - 20:39:26 CST: Eudora 6.0.3 attachment spoof, LaunchProtect.
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Wed Aug 07 2002 - 16:49:20 CDT: Eudora attachment spoof .
- BID-5432: Qualcomm Eudora File Attachment Spoofing Vulnerability
- BID-7653: Qualcomm Eudora File Attachment Spoofing Variant Vulnerability
- BID-9101: Qualcomm Eudora Attachment LaunchProtect Warning Bypass Weakness
- CVE-2002-2351: Eudora 5.1 allows remote attackers to bypass security warnings and possibly execute arbitrary code via attachments with names containing a trailing . (dot).
- CVE-2003-0336: Qualcomm Eudora 5.2.1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an email message with a carriage return (CR) character in a spoofed Attachment Converted: string, which is not properly handled by Eudora.
Platforms Affected:
- Qualcomm Eudora 5.1
- Qualcomm Eudora 5.2
- Qualcomm Eudora 5.2.1
- Qualcomm Eudora 6.0.1
- Qualcomm Eudora 6.0.3
Reported:
Aug 08, 2002
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