Description
wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.
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 - 'Content-Type' Stack Overflow Crash EDB-2039 · dos · Jul 20, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 29129 vdb-entry
- ie-wininet-dos(27900) vdb-entry
- 2039 exploit
- ADV-2006-2917 vdb-entry
- 20060722 Microsoft Internet Explorer DOS Vulnerability mailing-list
- 19092 vdb-entry
- 1683 third-party-advisory