Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 IMAP Reply integer coercion

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 (Mail Client Software). This affects some unknown functionality of the component IMAP Reply Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a integer coercion vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-192. Integer coercion refers to a set of flaws pertaining to the type casting, extension, or truncation of primitive data types. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

The IMAP Client for Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 allows remote malicious IMAP servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain large literal size values that cause either integer signedness errors or integer overflow errors.

The weakness was disclosed 06/16/2003 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0301 since 05/14/2003. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Class: Integer coercion
CWE: CWE-192 / CWE-189
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05/14/2003 🔍
06/16/2003 +33 days 🔍
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2003-0301 (🔍)
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Created: 08/12/2014 01:07
Updated: 05/03/2019 17:08
Changes: 08/12/2014 01:07 (48), 05/03/2019 17:08 (1)
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