A vulnerability has been identified in Microsoft Outlook, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by an input validation error when processing mailto URIs, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into visiting a specially crafted web page.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Greg MacManus (iDefense Labs).
ChangeLog
2008-03-11 : Initial release
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