Description
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.
Published: 2001-09-12
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 7.7% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-1999-0997 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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Microsoft Frontpage Internet Explorer Outlook Express
Qualcomm Eudora
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-01T16:55:29.417Z

Reserved: 2001-08-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-1999-1016

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 1999-08-27T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-1999-1016

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