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CVE-2002-1255 (GCVE-0-2002-1255)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2004-09-01 04:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 03:19
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Summary
Microsoft Outlook 2002 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (repeated failure) via an email message with a certain invalid header field that is accessed using POP3, IMAP, or WebDAV, aka "E-mail Header Processing Flaw Could Cause Outlook 2002 to Fail."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2002-12-04 00:00
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