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CVE-2006-1992

mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags, which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized, but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.

Published

2006-04-25T01:02:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 2.6 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: HIGH
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

4.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-399

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	microsoft	internet_explorer	6.0.2900	Yes

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html ([email protected])
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/19762 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781 ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016001 Exploit ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291 Patch ([email protected])
http://www.osvdb.org/27475 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17658 Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021 ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978 ([email protected])
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/19762 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016001 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.osvdb.org/27475 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17658 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)