Re: MS Outlook javascript parsing bug

[mikael.olsson () ENTERNET SE (Mikael Olsson)]

Update:

Several people have responded to me saying that they have no
problems with this.

One possible problem causer could be the preview pane; the
crashes I've witnessed all had the preview pane activated.

Also, the version of MSIE installed would probably affect
the outcome. (No, sorry, I don't have the version numbers
handy right now).

/Mike

Mikael Olsson wrote:
> It seems that MS Outlook 8.5.5104.6 screws up when displaying the
> following string in a mail message:
>
> <javascript:location.reload()>
>
> Note that you do NOT need to click it, just displaying the mail
> message will crash Outlook.
>
> The results are completely unpredictable, everything from hanging,
> crashing or complaining about not being able to display a
> particular font or complaining about being out of memory?!?!?!
>
> Anyone care to do anything fun with it other than spam mailing
> people to create a big 'ole DoS? :-)
>
> Just my $.02
> /Mike
>
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