Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by accessing the URL property of a TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument object before it has been initialized, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - TriEditDocument Denial of Service EDB-28207 · dos · Jul 11, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- ie-trieditdocument-dos(27675) vdb-entry
- ADV-2006-2765 vdb-entry
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-12-trieditdocument-url.html
- 27056 vdb-entry
- 18946 vdb-entry