Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:18736

CVE-2006-3545 |

Info

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 18736
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 29 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Jun 30 2006 04:59PM
Credit: Mr.Niega is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta3
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta2
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability when parsing certain HTML content.

Successfully exploiting this issue allows attackers to consume excessive CPU resources in affected browsers, denying service to legitimate users.

Exploit / POC

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Denial of Service Vulnerability

The following HTML code is sufficient to trigger this issue:

Solution / Fix

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]:[email protected].

References

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Denial of Service Vulnerability

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