POP3: Binary Encoding

This protocol anomaly is a message with a Content-Transfer-Encoding other than "7bit", "8bit", "base64", "quoted-printable", "binary" or "x-*".

Extended Description

A protocol anomaly exists when a POP3 message contains a value other than what is specified in RFC 2045 for the Content-Transfer-Encoding header. The impact of this anomaly depends on how a POP3 client handles such a malformed message.

Short Name
POP3:ERROR:ILLEGAL_ENCODE
Severity
Warning
Recommended
False
Recommended Action
None
Category
POP3
Release Date
01/30/2004
Supported Platforms

srx-branch-12.3

srx-19.3

srx-branch-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.2

srx-branch-19.4

vsrx-19.4

mx-12.3

mx-19.4

vmx-19.4

mx-19.3

vsrx3bsd-19.4

srx-19.4

vsrx-12.3

vmx-19.3

vsrx-19.2

srx-12.3

Sigpack Version
3324
False Positive
Unknown

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