CVE-2006-5162

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 36.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-10-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.1-sp1, 5.0.1-sp2, 5.0.1-sp3, 5.0.1-sp4 (+6)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683
http://www.osvdb.org/29129
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27900
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-07/0379.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683
http://www.osvdb.org/29129
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19092
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2917

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