CVE-2000-0756 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2000-0756?

CVE-2000-0756 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook, published on 21 Sep 2000. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Outlook 2000 does not properly process long or malformed fields in vCard (.vcf) files, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2000-0756?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Outlook.

How do I fix CVE-2000-0756?

No fix has been published for CVE-2000-0756 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2000-0756 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2000-0756 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook

• CVE-2017-11774 Microsoft Office Outlook Security Feature Bypass Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2001-0538 Code injection in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2013-3870 Use after free in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2010-2728 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3
• CVE-2010-0266 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.3

All Microsoft Outlook vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-3fm9-pr9w-23q9.