Patch Available for "Malformed RTF Control Word" Vulnerability

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              AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
                             
           ESB-2000.012 -- Microsoft Security Bulletin (MS00-005)
       Patch Available for "Malformed RTF Control Word" Vulnerability
                               18 January 2000

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Microsoft Corporation has released the following security bulletin
concerning a buffer overflow vulnerability the Rich Text Format (RTF) 
reader which ships with Microsoft Windows 95 and 98, and Windows NT 4.0. 

A malicious user, sending email to the target machine, could include a 
malformed control word in an RTF file attached to the email message, 
which may cause the recipient's email program to crash on opening the file 
with the default reader.

This vulnerability could be exploited to cause denial of service attacks on
email programs.

Microsoft has issued a patch which corrects this vulnerability:

       http://www.microsoft.com/security/bulletins/MS00-005.asp


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