[1331] in bugtraq
Re: MIME question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pete Hartman)
Mon Mar 27 15:42:38 1995
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 12:12:09 -0600
From: Pete Hartman <pwh@bradley.bradley.edu>
To: bugtraq@fc.net
>has anyone on this list heard of an "auto-execute MIME extension"? is
>this an issue? the question arose when i doubted the likelihood of
>a "virus" being launched via reading an e-mail message.
>
>your thoughts?
The closest to this I've heard of is also a potential problem with
some Web Browsers.
If you can invoke a sufficiently sophisticated postscript interpreter
with an email message or a web graphic, you can embed code to do
unintended things, since PostScript is a full language.