Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2006-5162
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.
EPSS: 0.358 (98.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.5
- N/a — versions n/a
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Broken Link, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Not Applicable, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SREASON, third-party-advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2006-5162?
- CVE-2006-5162 is a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Published 2006-10-05.
- Is CVE-2006-5162 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.