CVE-2006-7066 (GCVE-0-2006-7066)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-02-27 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://websecurity.com.ua/3130/ | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19228 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-30-or… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.osvdb.org/27533 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/554 | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2006-07-29 00:00
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