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

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

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

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CVE-2006-5162: Medium severity, CVSS 5.0 | Vulnix