CVE-2005-1790

Severity: low (CVSS 2.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 83.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-06-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 6.0.2900.2180 and 6.0.2800.1106, and earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a Javascript BODY onload event that calls the window function, aka "Mismatched Document Object Model Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0.2800.1106, 6.0.2900.2180

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111746394106172&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111755552306013&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/15368
http://secunia.com/advisories/15546
http://secunia.com/advisories/18064
http://secunia.com/advisories/18311
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015251
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-234.pdf
http://www.computerterrorism.com/research/ie/ct21-11-2005
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/887861
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/417326/30/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13799

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