CVE-2006-2055 Information

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2003 SP1 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via \ (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.

Reference

http://ingehenriksen.blogspot.com/2006/04/office-2003-file-attachment-exploit.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19819 http://www.osvdb.org/25003 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/432009/100/0/threaded http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1538 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26118