CVE-2006-1016

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Buffer overflow in the IsComponentInstalled method in Internet Explorer 6.0, when used on Windows 2000 before SP4 or Windows XP before SP1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via JavaScript that calls IsComponentInstalled with a long first argument.

Buffer overflow in the IsComponentInstalled method in Internet Explorer 6.0, when used on Windows 2000 before SP4 or Windows XP before SP1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via JavaScript that calls IsComponentInstalled with a long first argument.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-03-07 00:02:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/exploits.html#ie_iscomponentinstalled

http://www.metasploit.com/projects/Framework/modules/exploits/ie_iscomponentinstalled.pm

Exploit

16870

ie-iscomponentinstalled-bo(24923)

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