CVE-2007-0612

medium

Description

Multiple ActiveX controls in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by accessing the bgColor, fgColor, linkColor, alinkColor, vlinkColor, or defaultCharset properties in the (1) giffile, (2) htmlfile, (3) jpegfile, (4) mhtmlfile, (5) ODCfile, (6) pjpegfile, (7) pngfile, (8) xbmfile, (9) xmlfile, (10) xslfile, or (11) wdfile objects in (a) mshtml.dll; or the (12) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument or (13) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument.1 objects in (b) triedit.dll, which cause a NULL pointer dereference.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31867

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458443/100/0/threaded

http://www.determina.com/security.research/vulnerabilities/activex-bgcolor.html

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2199

http://osvdb.org/32628

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-January/052057.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0547.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-01-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.42876