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Microsoft Outlook Express News Reading Buffer Overflow
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA15695
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Release Date:
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2005-06-14
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Last Update:
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2005-06-15
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Popularity:
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14,893 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5
Microsoft Outlook Express 6
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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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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