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CVE-2002-1179

CVE-2002-1179

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 20%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDSep 1
1st PoCOct 10
exploitation probability
20%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
Buffer overflow in the S/MIME Parsing capability in Microsoft Outlook Express 5.5 and 6.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a digitally signed email with a long "From" address, which triggers the overflow when the user views or previews the message.
Affected products
n/a · n/a
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