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CVE-2006-3591 (GCVE-0-2006-3591)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-07-14 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:30
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Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by accessing the URL property of a TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument object before it has been initialized, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2006-07-11 00:00
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