CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-1016
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-03-07
- 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
Buffer overflow in the IsComponentInstalled method in Internet Explorer 6.0, when used on Windows 2000 before SP4 or Windows XP before SP1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via JavaScript that calls IsComponentInstalled with a long first argument.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0
References
- http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/exploits.html#ie_iscomponentinstalled metasploit.com
- http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/modules/exploits/ie_iscomponentinstalled.pm Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16870 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24923 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/exploits.html#ie_iscomponentinstalled metasploit.com
- http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/modules/exploits/ie_iscomponentinstalled.pm Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16870 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24923 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com