FW: Outlook HTML crash

From: Nate Nord <natenord(at)maximus.com>
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 15:53:18 EST

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Please post this to vuln-dev@securityfocus.com

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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.
Received on Thu Mar 13 13:02:37 2003