CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0216

10.0 HIGH Published 2004-11-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-11-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Integer overflow in the Install Engine (inseng.dll) for Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious website or HTML email with a long .CAB file name, which triggers the integer overflow when calculating a buffer length and leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• microsoft ie 6 • microsoft internet explorer 5.01 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5

References