CVE-2006-1992

35Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 40%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDApr 25

1st PoCApr 22

exploitation probability

40%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/27727

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References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021 http://secunia.com/advisories/19762 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016001 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978 http://www.osvdb.org/27475 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17658 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507