CVE-2006-0544 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer or potentially execute code via a malformed BGSOUND element, requiring user interaction to visit a malicious page.
- 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-2006-0544?
CVE-2006-0544 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Ie, published on 4 Feb 2006. 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
urlmon.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 2 (aka 7.0.5296.0) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a BGSOUND element with its SRC attribute set to "file://" followed by a large number of "-" (dash of hyphen) characters.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-0544?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Ie.
How do I fix CVE-2006-0544?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-0544 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-2006-0544 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-0544 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Ie
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vwhf-mw34-8mq8.