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Re: [Full-Disclosure] RE: Internet Explorer - Multiple Vulnerabilities

From: Berend-Jan Wever (SkyLinededup.tudelft.nl)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 07:47:57 CST


I looked into the "buffer overflow": it's actually a stack overflow. This
means Outlook Express just runs out of stack space and terminates. Nothing
is overwritten, this is not exploitable to gain unauthorized access or
elevate priviledges.

Cheers,
SkyLined

> These are not IE vulnerabilities.
>
> In all, you have described several ways to do some basic ressource
> exhaustion by using Internet Explorer as well as an abnomaly in the Apache
> server and a possible exploitable buffer overflow in Outlook Express. The
> latter is definitely interesting, provided it is exploitable at all, but
the
> first items are not security vulnerabilities - details below.