CVE Catalog

CVE-2004-0842

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from 'memory corruption') via certain malformed Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) elements that trigger heap-based buffer overflows, as demonstrated using the '<STYLE>@;/*' string, possibly due to a missing comment terminator that may cause an invalid length to trigger a large memory copy operation, aka the 'CSS Heap Memory Corruption Vulnerability.'

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization is the possibility of remotely crashing Internet Explorer, which can lead to user work interruptions and potential data loss in unsaved sessions.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update Internet Explorer to the latest available version and apply security patches released by Microsoft for this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from "memory corruption") via certain malformed Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) elements that trigger heap-based buffer overflows, as demonstrated using the "<STYLE>@;/*" string, possibly due to a missing comment terminator that may cause an invalid length to trigger a large memory copy operation, aka the "CSS Heap Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS