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Secunia Advisory SA11568

Eudora URL Handling Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory SA11568
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Release Date 2004-05-07
Last Update 2004-05-21
   
Popularity 18,881 views
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Criticality level Highly criticalHighly critical
Impact System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
Remediation status Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
Automated scanning Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI
   
Software:
Qualcom Eudora 5.x
Qualcom Eudora 6.x

Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) No CVE references.

  

Description

Paul Szabo has reported a vulnerability in Eudora, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the URL handling functionality. This can be exploited via a malicious email containing a specially crafted overly long link (about 300 bytes).

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code on a vulnerable system, but requires that the user is tricked into clicking the malicious URL.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 6.1 and prior for Windows. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
Qualcomm has released version 6.1.1 which reportedly fixes the URL handling vulnerability:
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Paul Szabo

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/securepc.html#Eudoraxx

http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/windows/6.1.1/RelNotes.txt

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