CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-1016

5.0 MEDIUM Published 1999-08-27 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-08-27
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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 configurations

• microsoft frontpage • microsoft internet explorer 5.0 • microsoft outlook express 5.0 • qualcomm eudora

References