CVE-2006-7030 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 and earlier versions, as well as various Windows operating systems. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the browser by presenting specially crafted HTML, likely involving malformed applet and base tags that trigger a null pointer dereference in mshtml.dll. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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