Title: Microsoft Internet Explorer MSHTML.DLL HTML Parsing Denial of Service Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
Microsoft Internet Explorer is affected by a denial of service vulnerability. This issue arises because the application fails to properly parse certain malformed HTML content. Specifically, the vulnerability presents itself when a specially crafted DIV element is parsed.
An attacker may exploit this issue by enticing a user to visit a malicious site resulting in a denial of service condition in the application.
Internet Explorer 6.0 is considered to be vulnerable to this issue. Prior versions may be affected as well.
Affected Products:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition Itanium
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Web Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Home
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional
References:
- Microsoft: Technet Security
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