FKIE_CVE-1999-1448

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 1998-07-29 04:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 21:50
Severity
Summary
Eudora and Eudora Light before 3.05 allows remote attackers to cause a crash and corrupt the user's mailbox via an e-mail message with certain dates, such as (1) dates before 1970, which cause a Divide By Zero error, or (2) dates that are 100 years after the current date, which causes a segmentation fault.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526168&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=90221104526168&w=2
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
qualcomm eudora *
qualcomm eudora_light *
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T21:50:27.730",
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