CVE-2006-5581

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 36.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain DHTML script functions, such as normalize, and "incorrectly created elements" that trigger memory corruption, aka "DHTML Script Function Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 6

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/23288
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017373
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/347448
http://www.osvdb.org/30814
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454210/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454969/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21546
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2006-121212-1201-99
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-346A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4966
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-048.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-072

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