Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | Security Update for Outlook Express and Windows Mail (941202) |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | MS07-056 | First vendor Publication | 2007-10-09 |
| Vendor | Microsoft | Last vendor Modification | 2007-10-09 |
| Severity (Vendor) | Critical | 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 | ||
| Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores | |||
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2
| Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 9.3 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 10 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| This critical security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution due to an incorrectly handled malformed NNTP response. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms07-056.mspx |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 % | CWE-119 | Failure to Constrain Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer |
OVAL Definitions
| Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1706 | |||
| Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1706 | ||
| Title: | Network News Transfer Protocol Memory Corruption Vulnerability | ||
| Description: | Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Outlook Express 6 and earlier, and Windows Mail for Vista, allows remote Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) servers to execute arbitrary code via long NNTP responses that trigger memory corruption. | ||
| Family: | windows | Class: | vulnerability |
| Reference(s): | CVE-2007-3897 | Version: | 3 |
| Platform(s): | Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Microsoft Windows Vista | Product(s): | Microsoft Outlook Express |
| Definition Synopsis: | |||
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2011-01-14 | Name : Microsoft Outlook Express And Windows Mail NNTP Protocol Heap Buffer Overflow... File : nvt/gb_ms07-056.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 37631 | Microsoft Windows Malformed NNTP Response Remote Memory Corruption |
Snort® IPS/IDS
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2014-01-10 | Microsoft Office Outlook Express and Windows Mail NNTP handling buffer overfl... RuleID : 16428 - Revision : 11 - Type : FILE-OFFICE |
| 2014-01-10 | XHDR buffer overflow attempt RuleID : 12636 - Revision : 6 - Type : PROTOCOL-NNTP |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2007-10-09 | Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the email client. File : smb_nt_ms07-056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
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| 2014-02-17 11:45:47 |
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| 2014-01-19 21:30:07 |
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| 2013-05-11 12:22:04 |
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