The vulnerability is caused due to a buffer overflow error in inetcomm.dll while processing Network News Transfer Protocol NNTP responses. Successful exploitation could corrupt the system memory and allow attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of logged in user.
The attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by creating and hosting a specially crafted web site containing specially crafted contents to exploit the vulnerability and could persuade the user to visit the website typically by getting them click on a link to the website. Opening such Web sites could corrupt the system memory and allow attacker to execute arbitrary code.
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