CVE-2006-7066
HIGHEPSS 97th pctlDescription
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an object inside an iframe, deleting the frame by setting its location.href to about:blank, then accessing a property of the object within the deleted frame, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/554
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-30-orphan-object-properties.html
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3130/
- http://www.osvdb.org/27533
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19228
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28068
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