Overview
A vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook Express's NNTP response parsing may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Description
Microsoft Outlook Express contains support for Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) data, which is defined in RFC 977 and RFC 2980. A flaw in Outlook Express' handling of NNTP responses may lead to a buffer overflow condition if a specially-crafted reply is sent by a compromised or malicious NNTP server. |
Impact
A remote, unauthenticated attacker with the ability to control an NNTP server that a host is connected to may be able to execute arbitrary code in the security context of the local user. |
Solution
Apply an Update Please see Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-030 for more information, such as workarounds and patches. |
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Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
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References
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Microsoft for information on this vulnerability, who in turn credit iDEFENSE with reporting this vulnerability.
This document was written by Ken MacInnis.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2005-1213 |
| Severity Metric: | 2.81 |
| Date Public: | 2005-06-14 |
| Date First Published: | 2005-06-14 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2005-06-20 19:25 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 12 |