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CVSSv2

CVE-2002-1714

Published: 31/12/2002 Updated: 23/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 up to and including 6.0 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) via an object of type "text/html" with the DATA field that identifies the HTML document that contains the object, which may cause infinite recursion.

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microsoft internet explorer 5.0

microsoft internet explorer 5.5

microsoft internet explorer 6.0

microsoft ie 6.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/4564/info Microsoft Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a denial of service due to an error in handling certain self-referential <OBJECT> definitions in HTML documents This occurs when an object of type "text/html" is specified, with the DATA field referencing the name of the HTML document in which it ...