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Vulnerability Development: Re: No body emails and Norton antivirus

Re: No body emails and Norton antivirus

From: Peter Lem <peter.lem_at_acml.com>
Date: 7 Oct 2004 12:50:24 -0000
('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) In-Reply-To: <20040925222930.GA2041_at_commedia.it>

Version of Norton Anti-Virus? patched?
Version of Outlook? patched?

Thank You.

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>From: zerozero_at_controcultura.net
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>Subject: No body emails and Norton antivirus
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>Hello,
> we're getting reports from our customers about
>Outlook + Norton Antivirus crashing on certain messages.
>We tryed to track the problem down, and it seems like that
>emails without body and without the \n separating the body
>from the headers crashes them. We had not the time to track
>the problem down any further, but can anybody confirm this?
>Many mail servers accept mails ``without body''.
> We couldn't reproduce it on _all_ platforms, but we
>experienced the problem on many installations.
>
> You can generate a simple test case by sending a
>message to your account using something like:
>
>telnet mail 25
>...
>rcpt to: ...
>data
>From: foo_at_bar.org
>To: myaccount_at_test.com
>Subject: test email
>.
>quit
>
> Please make sure the MDA on your server does not
>automatically insert a \n after the headers (Subject
>should be on the last line -- I think spamassassin,
>procmail and many others do this...).
>
>Thanks for any replay,
>Cheers,
>zero
>
Received on Oct 10 2004

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