RE: Outlook HTML crash

["Larry Seltzer" <larry () larryseltzer com>]

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.