Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie

CVE-2002-1714

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.

EPSS: 0.194 (97.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie — versions 6.0
Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.0, 5.5, 6.0
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)