CVE-2005-4269 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service in Internet Explorer by triggering a race condition during document reloads and button focus events.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2005-4269?
CVE-2005-4269 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Ie, published on 15 Dec 2005. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
mshtml.dll in Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003, and Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (access violation) by causing mshtml.dll to process button-focus events at the same time that a document is reloading, as seen in Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 by repeatedly clicking the "Delete" button in a repeating section in a form. NOTE: the normal operation of InfoPath appears to involve a local user without any privilege boundaries, so this might not be a vulnerability in InfoPath. If no realistic scenarios exist for this problem in other products, then perhaps it should be excluded from CVE.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2005-4269?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Microsoft Ie, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server, Microsoft Windows Xp.
How do I fix CVE-2005-4269?
No fix has been published for CVE-2005-4269 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2005-4269 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2005-4269 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Ie
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2h2m-3wv3-pqw4.