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CVSSv2

CVE-1999-1016

Published: 27/08/1999 Updated: 22/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.

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microsoft outlook express 5.0

qualcomm eudora

microsoft frontpage

microsoft internet explorer 5.0

Exploits

Microsoft Internet Explorer 50 for Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT 4 HTML Form Control DoS source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/606/info Certain Microsoft applications (IE5, Outlook Express 5) are unable to display large HTML form fields within HTML tables Attempts to view the offending table will cause the application to "hang" and consum ...