Embedded image security?

["Scott R. Ehrlich" <user=81@nabble.blu.org>]

 I received an email spam with the following partial body (I'm omitting the 
image itself), that, when read with Firefox 3 on my Ubuntu Linux box, produced 
an image: 

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. 

------=_NextPart_000_0003_03AD0000.0B070001 
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; 
         boundary="----=_NextPart_001_0004_03AD0000.0B070001" 


------=_NextPart_001_0004_03AD0000.0B070001 
Content-Type: text/html; charset=gb2312 
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 

[long string of random characters making up image] 

------=_NextPart_001_0004_03AD0000.0B070001-- 



------=_NextPart_000_0003_03AD0000.0B070001-- 


On a Windows system, I could see it possibly doing any kind of harm. 

But under Linux, or even MacOS, what problems, if any, could I truly expect? 

Would I be considered immune enough to not need a reinstall? 

Thanks. 

Scott 

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