National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1305
Original release date:12/31/2006
Last revised:09/27/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and interrupted mail recovery) via malformed e-mail header information, possibly related to (1) long subject lines or (2) large numbers of recipients in To or CC headers.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-009A
Name: TA07-009A
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#617436
Name: VU#617436
External Source: BID
Name: 21937
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MS
Name: MS07-003
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1017488
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23674
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0104
Type: Advisory
External Source: HP
Name: HPSBST02184
External Source: HP
Name: SSRT071296
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 31253
External Source: MISC
Name: http://osvdb.org/ref/24/24081-outlook1.txt
External Source: MLIST
Name: [funsec] 20060308 DOSing Outlook 2003
External Source: MISC
Name: http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/347
US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:122
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:122
Type: Tool Signature
References to Check Content
Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:122
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Technical Details
- Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)