CVE-2006-1992 Information

Description

mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873 as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-04/0616.html http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-April/045422.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19762 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/781 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016001 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291 http://www.osvdb.org/27475 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/431796/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17658 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1507 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25978