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CVE-2006-7066 (GCVE-0-2006-7066)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-02-27 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2006-07-29 00:00
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