7.1
CVSSv2

CVE-2006-7066

Published: 02/03/2007 Updated: 13/12/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.1 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 715
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and previous versions are also affected.

Vulnerability Trend

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microsoft internet_explorer 6.0

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/19228/info Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability This issue is triggered when an attacker convinces a victim user to visit a malicious website Remote attackers may exploit this issue to crash Internet Explorer, effectively denying service to legitimate users // MoBB ...