CVE-2006-5162

MediumCVSS 5.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 5.0/10AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.htmlBroken Link
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683Exploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/29129Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917Not Applicable
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900Broken Link
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.htmlBroken Link
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683Exploit, Third Party Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/29129Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917Not Applicable
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900Broken Link
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

Timeline

Published: Oct 5, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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