CVE-2006-5162

35Vexday Risk Score

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

ssvc Attendepss 36%

exploitation probability

36%top 2% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1

cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039unverified

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References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039 http://www.osvdb.org/29129 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917