what was that?
    Brett Glass 
    brett at lariat.org
       
    Mon Mar 31 11:27:13 PST 2003
    
    
  
At 11:56 AM 3/31/2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
>> It means that someone's trying to exploit a buffer overrun
>> vulnerability.
>
>No, I don't think so.
You have a right to disagree, of course. However, some MUAs
HAVE been reported to have buffer overflow vulnerabilities 
that can be exploited via an excessively long message ID
header. I have installed a filter that shortens them to
prevent Outlook users from being nailed by this bug.
--Brett
    
    
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