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CVE-2006-7066

HIGH CVSS: 7.1 Published: 2007-03-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows XpMicrosoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References