CVE-2006-1992

Description

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/27475

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781

http://secunia.com/advisories/19762

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

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