CVE-2005-4717
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows NT 4.0 SP6a, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP SP1, Windows XP SP2, and Windows Server 2003 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (client crash) via a certain combination of a malformed HTML file and a CSS file that triggers a null dereference, probably related to rendering of a DIV element that contains a malformed IMG tag, as demonstrated by IEcrash.htm and IEcrash.rar.
- EPSS
- 16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 96% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- microsoft:ie
- microsoft:internet_explorer
- microsoft:windows_2000
- microsoft:windows_2003_server
- microsoft:windows_nt
- microsoft:windows_xp
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15268
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0673.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-11/0127.html