CVE-2004-1944

Qualcomm Eudora 6.0.3-6.1 - Denial of Service via Deeply Nested Multipart MIME Message

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2004-1944. PoCs published by Paul Szabo.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This Perl script generates a maliciously nested MIME email to trigger a stack overflow in Eudora 6.0.3, causing a denial of service (DoS) via excessive recursion during MIME parsing.

Description

Eudora 6.1 and 6.0.3 for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a deeply nested multipart MIME message.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Paul Szabo · perldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24000

This Perl script generates a maliciously nested MIME email to trigger a stack overflow in Eudora 6.0.3, causing a denial of service (DoS) via excessive recursion during MIME parsing.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Eudora 6.0.3
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Ability to send an email to the target
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10137
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15857
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/11360
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108241694627321&w=2
Exploit, Vendor Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-April/020075.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0189
EPSS Percentile 76.9%

Details

Status published
Products (2)
qualcomm/eudora 6.0.3
qualcomm/eudora 6.1
Published Apr 14, 2004
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026