RE: Outlook HTML crash

From: Larry Seltzer (larry@larryseltzer.com)
Date: 03/14/03

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    From: "Larry Seltzer" <larry@larryseltzer.com>
To: "'Nate Nord'" <natenord@maximus.com>, <vuln-dev@securityfocus.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:45:53 -0500

    Confirmed on Outlook 2002, although I'm not sure I'd call this a vulnerability.

    LJS

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Nate Nord [mailto:natenord@maximus.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:53 PM
    To: vuln-dev@securityfocus.com
    Subject: FW: Outlook HTML crash

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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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