CVE-2006-6310 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer by sending a malformed HTML frameset with an invalid src attribute, requiring user interaction to view the 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-2006-6310?

CVE-2006-6310 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 6 Dec 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

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an invalid src attribute value ("?") in an HTML frame tag that is in a frameset tag with a large rows attribute. NOTE: The provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6310?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.

How do I fix CVE-2006-6310?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6310 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-2006-6310 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-6310 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-3j77-7r45-wfxw.

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