CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2831

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-12-14 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-12-14
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page with embedded CLSIDs that reference certain COM objects that are not intended for use within Internet Explorer, aka a variant of the "COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2127.

Affected configurations

• microsoft ie 6.0 • microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1 • microsoft internet explorer 5.5 • microsoft internet explorer 6.0

References