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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.

Solution
Apply patches.
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Provided and/or discovered by
Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.

Changelog
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Original Advisory
MS05-030 (KB897715):
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms05-030.mspx

iDEFENSE:
http://idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=263&type=vulnerabilities

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