Test ID:	1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.800083
Category:	Denial of Service
Title:	Microsoft Outlook Express Malformed MIME Message DoS Vulnerability
Summary:	Microsoft Outlook Express is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:	Summary: Microsoft Outlook Express is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: Flaw is due to improper handling of multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and e-mail messages with many Content-type: message/rfc822 headers in MimeOleClearDirtyTree function of InetComm.dll file. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation could result in application to crash. Affected Software/OS: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x to 6.00.2900.5512. Solution: No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one. CVSS Score: 4.3 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Cross-Ref:	Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2008-5424 BugTraq ID: 32702 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32702 Bugtraq: 20081208 DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20081209 Re: DoS attacks on MIME-capable software via complex MIME emails (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721
Copyright	Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone AG

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