Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 27, 1999· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-1999-1016

Description

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.

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Affected products

Microsoft/Frontpage
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:*:*:express:*:*:*:*:*
Microsoft/Internet Explorer2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: = 5.0
Microsoft/Outlook Express2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook_express:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: = 5
Qualcomm/Eudora
cpe:2.3:a:qualcomm:eudora:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Microsoft/FrontPage Expressllm-create

cvss	0.000
epss	0.006
exploit	0.030
kev	0.000
patch	0.000
ransomware	0.000

CVE-1999-1016

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