Vulnerability CVE-2006-5162
Published: 2006-10-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
Microsoft Internet Explorer DOS Vulnerability
Firestorm
05.10.2006

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039
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