Description: Secunia Research has discovered some vulnerabilities in Lotus Notes, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to various errors within certain third-party file viewers and can be exploited to cause buffer overflows when a specially crafted file attachment is viewed.
The vulnerabilities are confirmed in versions 7.0.3 and 8.0. Other versions may also be affected.
Do you have this product installed on your home computer? Scan using the free Personal Software Inspector. Check if a vulnerable version is installed on computers in your corporate network, scan using the Network Software Inspector.
Solution: Apply patch (contact the vendor for details).
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