Security Advisory SA7652 - Microsoft update to Outlook 2002

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Secunia Advisory SA7652

Microsoft update to Outlook 2002

Secunia Advisory

SA7652

Release Date

2002-12-05

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

DoS

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

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Secunia CSI, Secunia PSI

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Software:

Microsoft Outlook 2002

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Description

Microsoft has issued an update to Outlook 2002 which fixes a Denial of Service vulnerability.

The problem is that Outlook 2002 fails to convert mails with certain headers, when Outlook 2002 encounters this message during mail download it will crash, only by removing the malicious email from the server could normal operation be restored.

Solution
Microsoft has issued an update:
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Secunia Advisory SA7652

Microsoft update to Outlook 2002

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