Denial of Service Vulnerability in Microsoft HTML Control

CVE-1999-1016 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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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