PT-2006-5900 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Firestorm · Published 2006-10-03 · Updated 2021-12-13 · CVE-2006-5162

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 versions 6.0 SP2 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an unhandled exception and crash, via a long Content-Type header that triggers a stack overflow.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6.0 SP2 and earlier, consider updating to a newer version to mitigate the risk of exploitation. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to potentially malicious websites to minimize the risk of triggering the stack overflow.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-5162

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 8

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/2039 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://osvdb.org/29129 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/bid/19092 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5162 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917 · Note