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Versions of Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh is vulnerable to a buffer overflow condition. If a malicious user sends a specially crafted email containing an unusually long line in the message body, a stack overflow will reportedly occur making arbitrary code execution possible. Sending random data could cause the application to crash. A user may only have to download an offending email in order to become susceptible to an attack. The attacker may cause a prolonged denial of service because the client will crash before being able to delete the malicious message on the mail server. The message will continue causing the client to crash each time mail is retrieved until either the administrator or another non-vulnerable client deletes it.

Versions of Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh is vulnerable to a buffer overflow condition. If a malicious user sends a specially crafted email containing an unusually long line in the message body, a stack overflow will reportedly occur making arbitrary code execution possible. Sending random data could cause the application to crash. A user may only have to download an offending email in order to become susceptible to an attack. The attacker may cause a prolonged denial of service because the client will crash before being able to delete the malicious message on the mail server. The message will continue causing the client to crash each time mail is retrieved until either the administrator or another non-vulnerable client deletes it.