CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1987

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-10-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-10-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-120

Description

Buffer overflow in Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), as used in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Exchange Server, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when CDOSYS or CDOEX processes an e-mail message with a large header name, as demonstrated using the "Content-Type" string.

Affected configurations

• microsoft exchange server 2000 • microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows server 2003 • microsoft windows server 2003 r2 • microsoft windows server 2003 sp1 • microsoft windows xp

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input weakness

References