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CVE-2006-5162

medium · 5

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.

5
CVSS
35.9%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2006-10-05
Published

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftinternet_explorer5.0
microsoftinternet_explorer5.0.1
microsoftinternet_explorer5.0.1
microsoftinternet_explorer5.0.1
microsoftinternet_explorer5.0.1
microsoftinternet_explorer5.0.1
microsoftinternet_explorer5.5
microsoftinternet_explorer5.5
microsoftinternet_explorer5.5
microsoftinternet_explorer6.0
microsoftinternet_explorer6.0
microsoftinternet_explorer6.0

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References

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