CVE-2004-0216

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 48.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-10-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the Install Engine (inseng.dll) for Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, and 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious website or HTML email with a long .CAB file name, which triggers the integer overflow when calculating a buffer length and leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6-windows_server_2003_sp1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.01, 5.5

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109760693512754&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110616383332055&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=ntbugtraq&m=110619893620517&w=2
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/637760
http://www.ngssoftware.com/advisories/msinsengfull.txt
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-293A.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-038
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17620
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17651
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5316
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5329
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6100

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