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Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook URL Obfuscation Issue

Secunia Advisory:

SA11582

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Release Date:

2004-05-10

Last Update:

2004-10-29

Popularity:

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Critical:

Not critical

Impact:

Spoofing

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Partial Fix

Software:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 97
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Outlook 2000
Microsoft Outlook 2002
Microsoft Outlook 97
Microsoft Outlook 98
Microsoft Outlook Express 5

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Solution:
The issue does not affect Windows XP systems with SP2 installed.

Manually enter URLs received in emails.

Do not follow links from untrusted websites.

Provided and/or discovered by:
http-equiv

Changelog:
2004-06-02: Added information about exploitation in the wild.
2004-06-17: Added CVE reference.
2004-10-29: Added information about Windows XP SP2 not being affected.

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