CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-1922

2.6 LOW Published 2004-04-11 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-04-11
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.6 LOW — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0 allocates memory based on the memory size written in the BMP file instead of the actual BMP file size, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a small BMP file with has a large memory size.

Affected configurations

• microsoft internet explorer 5.5 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

References