CVE-1999-1016

Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.

CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/606	Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93578772920970&w=2

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:eudora::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:::express:::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:::::::*

Information

Published : 1999-08-26 21:00

Updated : 2021-07-22 07:02

NVD link : CVE-1999-1016

Mitre link : CVE-1999-1016

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Products Affected

microsoft

outlook_express
internet_explorer
frontpage

qualcomm

eudora

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