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Exchange Malformed MIME header

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks the remote banner

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

The remote Exchange server seems to be vulnerable to a flaw that
lets malformed MIME headers crash it.

*** Nessus did not actually test for these flaws - it just relied
*** on the banner to identify them. Therefore, this warning may be
*** a false positive - especially since the banner DOES NOT CHANGE
*** if the patch has been applied

The full testing methodology is available at http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/144494

Solution : See http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms00-082.mspx
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 1869

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2000 Renaud Deraison

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