7.5 - MS02-058

Executive Summary

Informations
Name	MS02-058	First vendor Publication	N/A
Vendor	Microsoft	Last vendor Modification	N/A
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score	NA
Base Score	NA	Environmental Score	NA
impact SubScore	NA	Temporal Score	NA
Exploitabality Sub Score	NA

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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score	7.5	Attack Range	Network
Cvss Impact Score	6.4	Attack Complexity	Low
Cvss Expoit Score	10	Authentication	None Required
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Detail

Unchecked Buffer in Outlook Express S/MIME Parsing Could Enable System Compromise (Q328676)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

Type	Description	Count
Application	Microsoft Outlook Express cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:6.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.5:::::::*	2

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id	Description
11422	Microsoft Outlook Express S/MIME Parsing Routine Remote Overflow Microsoft Outlook Express client will throw an error when it receives an e-mail containing a malformed S/MIME certificate. The resulting error message informs the user of an issue, however the rendered message contains an unchecked buffer. This buffer is meant to hold the sender's e-mail address, and is susceptible overflow by creating an especially large From: field, leading to a loss of integrity.

Description

11422

Microsoft Outlook Express S/MIME Parsing Routine Remote Overflow

Microsoft Outlook Express client will throw an error when it receives an e-mail containing a malformed S/MIME certificate. The resulting error message informs the user of an issue, however the rendered message contains an unchecked buffer. This buffer is meant to hold the sender's e-mail address, and is susceptible overflow by creating an especially large From: field, leading to a loss of integrity.