Title: Microsoft Outlook Express Windows Address Book File Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
Windows Address Book files are used to store contact information.
Microsoft Outlook Express is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability. This issue arises because the application fails to perform boundary checks prior to copying user-supplied data into sensitive process buffers.
Specifically, this vulnerability presets itself when the application processes a specially crafted Windows Address Book (.wab) file containing Unicode strings with a modified length value. A malicious attacker-supplied file containing excessive data may result in an overflow condition and lead to process memory corruption.
An attacker may exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of a user running the vulnerable application. This may result in a remote compromise.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 for Windows 2000
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 for Windows 95
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 for Windows 98
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 for Windows NT 4.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5.0
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5.0SP1
- Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5.0SP2
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0
- Microsoft Outlook Express 6.0.0SP1
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP4
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP3
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP4
- Microsoft Windows ME
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Home SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP1
- Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition
References:
- Microsoft: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-016
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