CVE-2006-5162

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
20.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 4% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: October 5, 2006 (7161 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 archives.neohapsis.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.vupen.com