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CVE-1999-1016

N/A

Published: September 12, 2001 at 04:00 AM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 09:49 PM UTC

4 products affected across 2 vendorsInternet ExplorerOutlook ExpressEudora

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 8%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Frontpage · Microsoft

95%

All versions

Internet Explorer · Microsoft

95%

Outlook Express · Microsoft

95%

Eudora · Qualcomm

95%

All versions

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/606

References (2)

Mailing Listx_refsource_NTBUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=93578772920970&w=2

VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploitVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/606

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]

Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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