Summary
The host is installed with Microsoft Outlook Express and is prone to denial of service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation could result in application to crash.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
No solution or patch was made available for at least one year since 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.
For updates refer to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/default.aspx
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.
Affected
Microsoft Outlook Express 6.x to 6.00.2900.5512
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-5424 -
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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