VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-5162
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability36.49%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-10-05
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- cve@mitre.org — Not Applicable
- cve@mitre.org — Broken Link
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Broken Link
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Broken Link
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Not Applicable