CVE-2006-1305

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 32.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, and 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion and interrupted mail recovery) via malformed e-mail header information, possibly related to (1) long subject lines or (2) large numbers of recipients in To or CC headers.

Affected products

Microsoft Office: 2000-sp3, xp-sp3, 2003-sp2
Microsoft Outlook: 2000, 2002, 2003

References

http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/347
http://linuxbox.org/pipermail/funsec/2006-March/005208.html
http://osvdb.org/ref/24/24081-outlook1.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/23674
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017488
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/617436
http://www.osvdb.org/31253
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457274/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21937
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-009A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0104
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-003

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