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CVE-2006-1992

LOW CVSS: 2.6 Published: 2006-04-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags, which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized, but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References