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Gentoo Linux GLSA 200411-06 Low Severity: MIME-tools Email Detection Evader

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Calendar Grey November 2, 2004
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The Gentoo advisory GLSA 202310-02 raises concerns over a MIME-handling vulnerability potentially allowing evasion of malware detection in specific email transmissions.
MIME-tools doesn't handle empty MIME boundaries correctly

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-06 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Low Title: MIME-tools: Virus detection evasion Date: November 02, 2004 Bugs: #69181 ID: 200411-06

Synopsis ======= MIME-tools doesn't handle empty MIME boundaries correctly. This may prevent some virus-scanning programs which use MIME-tools from detecting certain viruses.
Background ========= MIME-tools is a Perl module containing functions to handle MIME attachments.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-perl/MIME-tools < 5.415 >= 5.415
========== MIME-tools doesn't correctly parse attachment boundaries with an empty name (boundary="").
Impact ===== An...

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