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Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) service included with IIS (Internet Information Services) 4.0 and 5.0 are vulnerable to an encapsulated SMTP address vulnerability. The vulnerability was originally announced in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS99-027 and reported to affect Exchange Server 5.5. Microsoft released a patch to fix the vulnerability for Exchange Server 5.5 only. It has been recently reported that this vulnerability also affects the SMTP service included with Microsoft IIS 4.0 and 5.0. There exists no patch for the IIS SMTP service.

Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) service included with IIS (Internet Information Services) 4.0 and 5.0 are vulnerable to an encapsulated SMTP address vulnerability. The vulnerability was originally announced in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS99-027 and reported to affect Exchange Server 5.5. Microsoft released a patch to fix the vulnerability for Exchange Server 5.5 only. It has been recently reported that this vulnerability also affects the SMTP service included with Microsoft IIS 4.0 and 5.0. There exists no patch for the IIS SMTP service.