CVE-1999-1016

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

1999-08-27

Last modified

2024-08-01

Affected products

• Frontpage (Microsoft)
• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)
• Outlook Express (Microsoft)
• Eudora (Qualcomm)

References

• http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93578772920970&w=2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/606