Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-1016
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 | |
| Application | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 for Windows 95/Windows 98/Windows NT 4 HTML Form Control DoS. CVE-1999-1016. Dos exploit for windows platform |
| id | EDB-ID:19471 |
| last seen | 2016-02-02 |
| modified | 1999-08-27 |
| published | 1999-08-27 |
| reporter | Neon Bunny |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/19471/ |
| title | Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 HTML Form Control DoS |