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Outlook bug exposes private appointments

Report made, Vole response awaited
Thu Jun 28 2007, 19:20
A FINNISH READER reports that there's a not so nice bug in networked (team) environments in Outlook 2000/2003.

He reported the bug to Microsoft Finland some time ago but so far the outfit hasn't graced him with an answer. He has asked us to alert you to the potential problem.

According to our reader, this is how it works, or rather doesn't work:

Make a private appointment to your calendar.
Go to another computer, use an account that is not yours, and open your calendar from there.
Try to open that private appointment, you won't be able to do that.
Open any other appointment adjacent to the private one.
Click "next" or "previous" in the toolbar of that adjacent appointment.

He reports: "Voila, you'll see the details of that private appointment like it was not a private one!" µ

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old news

shit bud was discovered by microsoft and patched in 2007.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326373

posted by : luca, 18 June 2010 Complain about this comment
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