Internet Mail bug

From: Vadim Kolontsov (vadimat_private)
Date: Mon Mar 30 1998 - 23:49:53 PST

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Hi,

  sorry, if it's already known issue, but it seems that you can create
MIME-message which kills Internet Mail 4.70.1155 (it comes with Internet
Explorer 3.01) during downloading (POP3); I don't sure about other versions
(Outlook works OK with it - at least in IMAP mode).

  Just create MIME message with some attachment, then add additional ";" in
"Content-Type" string, like this:

     Content-Type: multipart/mixed;; boundary="---- =_NextPart_000_01BD2747.130E56B0"

  Or just remove anything after "multipart/mixed" like this:

     Content-Type: multipart/mixed

  Then send it to your test victim. Internet Mail will crash during
downloading such message, and user will be unable to access his mailbox
until someone corrects it. I was able to reproduce this situation on a
several machines.
  Just thought you'd like to know.

Regards,
V.
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Vadim Kolontsov
Portal NOC, Teleport-TP

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