CVE-2006-4888 (GCVE-0-2006-4888)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-09-19 21:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:15
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a CSS-formatted HTML INPUT element within a DIV element that has a larger size than the INPUT.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.osvdb.org/28614 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://jonas.elunic.de/blog/index.php/2006/07/14/… x_refsource_MISC
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
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