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Microsoft Outlook "mailto:" URI Handling Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:

SA29320

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Release Date:

2008-03-11

Last Update:

2008-03-12

Popularity:

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Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

Microsoft Office 2000
Microsoft Office 2003 Professional Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Small Business Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office 2003 Student and Teacher Edition
Microsoft Office 2007
Microsoft Office XP
Microsoft Outlook 2000
Microsoft Outlook 2002
Microsoft Outlook 2003
Microsoft Outlook 2007

Binary Analysis:

BA425 :: Available for 1 Credit

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when handling a specially crafted "mailto:" URI passed from a web browser. This can be exploited to pass extra command line switches to Outlook.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code when a user e.g. visits a malicious website.

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