CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-7066
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-03-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html Broken Link
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/554 Permissions Required
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-30-orphan-object-properties.html Broken Link
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3130/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/27533 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19228 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28068 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html Broken Link
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/554 Permissions Required
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-30-orphan-object-properties.html Broken Link
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3130/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.osvdb.org/27533 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19228 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28068 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry