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CVE-2006-5162

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2006-10-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References