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Microsoft Outlook Express News Reading Buffer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA15695
Release Date: 2005-06-14
Last Update: 2005-06-15
Popularity: 14,344 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5
Microsoft Outlook Express 6

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Outlook Express, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the parsing of NNTP responses when using Outlook Express as a newsgroup reader. This can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via a malicious newsgroup server.

Successful exploitation requires that a user queries a malicious newsgroup server for news.

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