Security Update for Outlook Express and Windows Mail (941202).
Summary:
This critical security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution due to an incorrectly handled malformed NNTP response. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by constructing a specially crafted Web page.
This is a critical security update for all supported versions of Microsoft Outlook express and Microsoft Windows Mail. For more information, see the subsection, Affected and Non-Affected Software, in this section.
This security update removes the vulnerability by changing the newsgroup client to handle malformed responses correctly.
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