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CVE-2006-3512 (GCVE-0-2006-3512)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-07-11 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:30
VLAI
Summary
Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by setting the Enabled property of a DXTFilter ActiveX object to true, which triggers a null dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18903 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2732 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.osvdb.org/27014 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2006-07-09 00:00
Show details on NVD website

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