Putting the Mime name vulnerability in outlook and messenger in perspective
1998; Elsevier BV; Volume: 1998; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/s1353-4858(98)80016-0
ISSN1872-9371
Autores Tópico(s)Information and Cyber Security
ResumoIf you are a typical user with numerous subscriptions to newsgroups, you have undoubtedly in the last month or two been flooded with information about a newly discovered security-related vulnerability in mail clients made by both Microsoft (Outlook '98 for Windows and Outlook Express — versions 4.72.2106.4 and 4.72.3110.1 for both Windows and Unix) and Netscape (Messenger version 4.05 and 4.5b1, the latter of which is for Windows). The reaction to this vulnerability has been extremely strong. Some have blamed the vendors of the products in which the vulnerability was found for being overtly negligent. The news media was not slow in discovering these reactions; at one point a newsgroup moderator was quoted in several newspaper articles as demanding a vendor recall of the products in which the vulnerability was found. Another newspaper article asserted that no solutions for controlling this vulnerability currently exist.
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