2.6
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-1992

Published: 25/04/2006 Updated: 23/07/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.6 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 4.9
VMScore: 265
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote malicious users 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.

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microsoft internet explorer 6.0.2900

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/17658/info Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a memory-corruption vulnerability This issue is due to a flaw in the application in handling nested OBJECT tags in HTML content An attacker could exploit this issue via a malicious web page to potentially execute arbitrary code in the context of the curr ...