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>> Microsoft Office 2003 "mailto:" URI Handler Arbitrary File Attachment Weakness
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A weakness has been identified in Microsoft Office 2003, which could be exploited by attackers to gain knowledge of sensitive information. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "mailto" URI handler that does not properly validate malformed arguments, which could be exploited by attackers to automatically and silently attach an arbitrary file to an email by tricking a user into clicking a specially crafted "mailto:" link.
Affected Products
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 and prior
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538
http://www.frsirt.com/english/reference/10821
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Inge Henriksen
ChangeLog
2006-04-26 : Initial release
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