FW: Outlook HTML crash

From: Nate Nord (natenord@maximus.com)
Date: 03/12/03

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    From: Nate Nord <natenord@maximus.com>
To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:53:18 -0500

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    > One of our users has discovered an interesting Outlook crash pertaining to
    > HTML e-mail. I was wondering if anyone else has seen this.
    >
    > The crash is pretty simple... reply to an HTML e-mail and throw in a bunch
    > of carriage returns and random characters in the previous e-mail space.
    > It seems to take only a few lines of this before Outlook crashes hard and
    > then closes.
    >
    > This has been tested on several Outlook 2000 machines and it seems to work
    > every time.

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