CVE-2006-1359

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 68.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-03-23 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a certain createTextRange call on a checkbox object, which results in a dereference of an invalid table pointer.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1, 6.0-sp2, 7.0-beta_2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1427.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1430.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1434.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-03/1662.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18680
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-7/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015812
http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/q-154.shtml
http://www.computerterrorism.com/research/ct22-03-2006
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/876678
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/917077.mspx
http://www.osvdb.org/24050

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