CVE-2006-3200 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer by tricking users into visiting a page with a malformed File:// URI in an IFRAME.

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-2006-3200?

CVE-2006-3200 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 23 Jun 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

Unspecified versions of Internet Explorer allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an IFRAME with a src tag containing a "File://" URI followed by an 8-bit character. NOTE: some third parties were unable to verify this issue.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3200?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.

How do I fix CVE-2006-3200?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3200 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-2006-3200 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3200 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-93g8-jxg6-4j2g.

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