CVE-2006-5162
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 36.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 36.5% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5147)
- Published
- October 5, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5147 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
- microsoft / internet explorer
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html(Broken Link)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683(Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/29129(Broken Link)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092(Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917(Not Applicable)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900(Broken Link)
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039(Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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