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 Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

35.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile

Published

2006-10-03

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-5156
• CVE-2006-5164
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• CVE-2006-5165
• CVE-2006-5154
• CVE-2006-5166