__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN Eudora Email Vulnerability [Eudora Email Security Advisory of 1/25/2005] February 3, 2005 18:00 GMT Number P-120 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: NGSSoftware found vulnerabilities in Eudora Windows version. PLATFORM: Windows Eudora versions 6.2.0 and earlier (Macintosh Eudora is not affected.) DAMAGE: Details of the vulnerabilities have not yet been disclosed but NGSSoftware plans to publish details on May 2, 2005. The flaw reportedly may cause Eudora to crash and may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. SOLUTION: Upgrade Windows Eudora to version 6.2.1. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is HIGH. If this vulnerability is exploited it may ASSESSMENT: allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Eudora. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-120.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.eudora.com/security.html ADDITIONAL LINKS: NGS Security Advisory http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/eudora-01.txt Secunia Advisory SA14104 http://secunia.com/advisories/14104/ ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Eudora Email Security Advisory of 1/25/2005 *****] Eudora Email Security Advisory January 25, 2005 Recently, John Heasman of NGSSoftware discovered some security vulnerabilities in Windows Eudora that could cause Eudora to crash. These vulnerabilities affect Windows Eudora versions 6.2.0 and older. These problems were fixed in the Eudora 6.2.1 release. This problem does not affect Macintosh Eudora. Additionally, the security vulnerabilities mentioned in the September 26, 2003 advisory (below) have been addressed in recent updates to Windows Eudora. The current version of Eudora (6.2.1 as of this writing) is not vulnerable to any of the potential security exploits listed below. [***** End Eudora Email Security Advisory of 1/25/2005 *****] _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC wishes to acknowledge the contributions of Eudora for the information contained in this bulletin. _______________________________________________________________________________ CIAC, the Computer Incident Advisory Capability, is the computer security incident response team for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the emergency backup response team for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). CIAC is located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. 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