FKIE_CVE-2006-3451
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-08-08 23:04 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:27
Severity
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 SP4 and 6 do not properly garbage collect when "multiple imports are used on a styleSheets collection" to construct a chain of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
References
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