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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-2055
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-2055

Description:
Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via " (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26118

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA19819

OSVDB
  25003

MISC
  http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded


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