PT-2005-5382 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2005-12-31 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2005-4717

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a client crash, via a certain combination of a malformed HTML file and a CSS file. This is probably related to the rendering of a DIV element that contains a malformed IMG tag.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0, consider avoiding the use of malformed HTML and CSS files to minimize the risk of a denial of service. As a temporary workaround, restrict the rendering of DIV elements that contain malformed IMG tags until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2005-4717

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 5

• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/26457 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/15268 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4717 · Security Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html · Note