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CVE-1999-1016

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 1999-08-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft HTML control as used in (1) Internet Explorer 5.0, (2) FrontPage Express, (3) Outlook Express 5, and (4) Eudora, and possibly others, allows remote malicious web site or HTML emails to cause a denial of service (100% CPU consumption) via large HTML form fields such as text inputs in a table cell.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Outlook ExpressMicrosoft FrontpageQualcomm EudoraMicrosoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References