CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-1992
2.6 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-04-25
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags, which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized, but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0.2900
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19762 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016001 Exploit
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291 Patch
- http://www.osvdb.org/27475 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17658 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19762 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016001 Exploit
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291 Patch
- http://www.osvdb.org/27475 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17658 Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com