CVE-1999-1448

Medium CVSS 5

Published 1998-07-29 · last changed 2026-06-16

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-1999-1448, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

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.

Sources

NVD record for CVE-1999-1448

CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P