CVE-2013-3870

N/A Unknown

Published: September 11, 2013 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Double free vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook 2007 SP3 and 2010 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by including many nested S/MIME certificates in an e-mail message, aka "Message Certificate Vulnerability."

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/09/10/assessing-risk-for-the-september-2013-security-updates.aspx

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Vendor Advisory

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/09/10/ms13-068-a-difficult-to-exploit-double-free-in-outlook.aspx

Source: secure@microsoft.com

Exploit Vendor Advisory

http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-253A

Source: secure@microsoft.com

US Government Resource

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-068

Source: secure@microsoft.com

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18857

Source: secure@microsoft.com

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/09/10/assessing-risk-for-the-september-2013-security-updates.aspx