PT-2004-2907 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer+1

Published 2004-12-31 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2004-2011

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

2.6

Low

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Internet Explorer version 6.0.2600.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a crash, by exploiting a parsing error in msxml3.dll. This error is triggered by a single & (ampersand) in a link, possibly due to missing portions of the URI.

Recommendations For Internet Explorer version 6.0.2600.0, consider avoiding the use of single & (ampersand) characters in links to prevent the parsing error until a fix is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-2011

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

Msxml3.Dll

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2011 · Security Note
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108422549617947&w=2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16112 · Note