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.
Published: 2006-10-03
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: 20.2% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T19:41:05.225Z

Reserved: 2006-10-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5162

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-10-05T04:04:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5162

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