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Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

CVE-2020-16949

Medium
5/10

Summary

A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft Outlook software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory, aka 'Microsoft Outlook Denial of Service Vulnerability'.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)

'Missing release of memory after effective lifetime (memory leak)' is a weakness that occurs when software doesn't effectively release allocated memory after it is used. If not addressed, this enables attackers to launch denial of service attacks (by crashing or hanging the program) or take advantage of other unexpected behavior resulting from low memory conditions.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published