SMTP: Duplicate Boundary

This protocol anomaly is an SMTP message with a MIME multipart content-type that uses duplicate boundaries.

Extended Description

A protocol anomaly is that a SMTP message headers or enclosed body content contains the same string as the boundary string. That will make the MIME interpreter fail to correctly interpret the message as expected.

References

URL: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2045.html

Short Name

SMTP:INVALID:DUP-BOUNDARY

Severity

Major

Recommended

False

Recommended Action

None

SMTP: Duplicate Boundary

Extended Description

References

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