← Database

CVE-2006-0830

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2006-02-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References