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Cumulative Security Update for Outlook Express (923694)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Acertains the presence of update 923694

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through the email
client.

Description:

The remote host is running a version of Microsoft Outlook Express
which contains a security flaw which may permit a possible hacker to execute
arbitrary code on the remote host.

To exploit this flaw, a possible hacker would need to send a malformed HTML
email to a victim on the remote host and have him open it.

Solution :

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Outlook Express :

See: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-076.mspx

Network Security Threat Level:

Medium / CVSS Base Score : 5.6
(AV:R/AC:H/Au:NR/C:P/I:P/A:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 21501

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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