CVE-2006-5162
N/A
Published: October 3, 2006 at 11:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorInternet Explorer
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 36%
Description
wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.
References (7)
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASONExploit
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDExploitThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENNot Applicable
Source: [email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917VDB Entryx_refsource_XFBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900Exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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