CVE-2006-0585

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

jscript.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a Shockwave Flash object that contains ActionScript code that calls VBScript, which in turn calls the Javascript document.write function, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 6; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0 (+59)

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015559
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423675/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425422/30/6890/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16441
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015559
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423675/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/425422/30/6890/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16441

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