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CVE-2006-0830
Published: Feb 21, 2006
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
20060218 Re: Stack overflow vulnerability in Internet Explorer exploitable trough VBScript and JScript scripting engines.
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20060216 Stack overflow vulnerability in Internet Explorer exploitable trough VBScript and JScript scripting engines.
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