CVE-2004-0284

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), if "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" is disabled, via a web site or HTML e-mail that contains two null characters (%00) after the host name.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Outlook 2002, and Outlook 2003 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption), if "Do not save encrypted pages to disk" is disabled, via a web site or HTML e-mail that contains two null characters (%00) after the host name.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 20 years ago

2004-11-23 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

Microsoft Outlook 2002

2002

Microsoft Outlook 2002 sp1

2002

Microsoft Outlook 2002 sp2

2002

Microsoft Outlook 2003

2003

References

20040210 ASPR #2004-01-20-1: Internet Explorer/Outlook double null character DoS

9629

Patch, Vendor Advisory

ie-host-null-dos(15127)

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