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Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (823353)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for ms04-018 over the registry

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

It is possible to crash the remote email client.

Description :

The remote host is missing a cumulative security update for Outlook Express
which fixes a denial of service vulnerability in the Outlook Express mail
client.

To exploit this vulnerability, a possible hacker would need to send a malformed
message to a victim on the remote host. The message will crash her version
of Outlook, thus preventing her from reading her e-mail.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Outlook Express :

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-018.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 4
(AV:R/AC:H/Au:NR/C:N/A:C/I:N/B:A)

Networks Security ID: 10711

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2004 Tenable Network Security

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