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CVE-2006-5162
published 2006-10-05

CVE-2006-5162: wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long…

PriorityP424medium5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCNINAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
35.36%
98.2th percentile
wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.

Affected

4 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
microsoftinternet_explorer
microsoftinternet_explorer
microsoftinternet_explorer
microsoftinternet_explorer
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