Outlook 2010 Security Update for January 2019

A Security Update has been released for Outlook 2010. It resolves the following vulnerability;

  • CVE-2019-0559: Microsoft Outlook Information Disclosure Vulnerability
    An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gather information about the victim. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted email to the victim.

This update also contains additional fixes for 2 non-security issues;

  • A “Blocked external content” warning for Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) email messages that have no external content is displayed.
  • Mail delivery rules stop working. When you try to open the “Manage Rules and Alerts” dialog box, you receive the following error message:

    The operation failed because of a registry or installation problem. Restart Outlook and try again. If the problem persists, reinstall.

View: Download information for KB4461623

Note: This update can be installed via Microsoft Update and updates Outlook to version 14.0.7227.5000.