CVE Catalog

CVE-2006-0544

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A vulnerability in urlmon.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted BGSOUND element with a SRC attribute containing a large number of hyphens.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization includes potential remote code execution by an attacker, which could lead to system compromise or service disruption.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately update Internet Explorer to a non-vulnerable version or apply the appropriate security patch from Microsoft.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

urlmon.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 2 (aka 7.0.5296.0) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a BGSOUND element with its SRC attribute set to "file://" followed by a large number of "-" (dash of hyphen) characters.

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