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CVE-2005-4717

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-02-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via a certain combination of a malformed HTML file and a CSS file that triggers a null dereference, probably related to rendering of a DIV element that contains a malformed IMG tag, as demonstrated by IEcrash.htm and IEcrash.rar.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1, 6.0-sp2
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0
• Microsoft Windows 2000: all versions
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: sp1
• Microsoft Windows Nt: 4.0-sp6a
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15268
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15268

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