Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2006-1992
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.
EPSS: 0.404 (98.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6.0.2900
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_FULLDISC)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)