cve-1999-1016
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2001-09-12 04:00
Modified
2024-08-01 16:55
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93578772920970&w=2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/606Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93578772920970&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/606Exploit, Vendor Advisory
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