Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2006-7066
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.
EPSS: 0.216 (97.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Windows_xp
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, x_refsource_MISC)