Description
Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 on Windows treats a carriage return ("CR") in a message header as if it were a valid carriage return/line feed combination (CR/LF), which could allow remote attackers to bypass virus protection and or other filtering mechanisms via a mail message with headers that only contain the CR, which causes Outlook to create separate headers.
References
- outlook-express-return-bypass(8198) vdb-entry
- 4092 vdb-entry
- 20020212 Outlook will see non-existing attachments mailing-list