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CVE-2007-0612

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 43.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-01-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple ActiveX controls in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by accessing the bgColor, fgColor, linkColor, alinkColor, vlinkColor, or defaultCharset properties in the (1) giffile, (2) htmlfile, (3) jpegfile, (4) mhtmlfile, (5) ODCfile, (6) pjpegfile, (7) pngfile, (8) xbmfile, (9) xmlfile, (10) xslfile, or (11) wdfile objects in (a) mshtml.dll; or the (12) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument or (13) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument.1 objects in (b) triedit.dll, which cause a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 5.0_ta3, 6.0-sp1, 7.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.0.1, 5.0.1-sp1, 5.0.1-sp4, 5.5, 6.0, 7.0-beta1 (+1)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0547.html
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-January/052057.html
• http://osvdb.org/32628
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2199
• http://www.determina.com/security.research/vulnerabilities/activex-bgcolor.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/458443/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22288
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31867
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2007-01/0547.html
• http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-January/052057.html
• http://osvdb.org/32628
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2199

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