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Tracker / CVE-2002-0694

CVE-2002-0694

High 7.5

The HTML Help facility in Microsoft Windows 98, 98 Second Edition, Millennium Edition, NT 4.0, NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, Windows 2000, and Windows XP uses the Local Computer Security Zone when opening .chm files from the Temporary Internet Files folder, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via HTML mail that references or inserts a malicious .chm file containing shortcuts that can be executed, aka "Code Execution via Compiled HTML Help File."

Affected products and versions

microsoft windows_2000
microsoft windows_2000_terminal_services
microsoft windows_98
microsoft windows_98se
microsoft windows_me
microsoft windows_nt
microsoft windows_xp

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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