CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5162
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-10-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.0
• microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1
• microsoft internet explorer 5.5
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html Broken Link
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/29129 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917 Not Applicable
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html Broken Link
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/29129 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917 Not Applicable
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry