CVE-2006-6956

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a web page that contains a large number of nested marquee tags, a related issue to CVE-2006-2723.

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: all versions

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-06/0085.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26898
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-06/0085.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26898

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