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>> Microsoft Internet Explorer Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
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Title : Microsoft Internet Explorer Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0646
CVE ID : CVE-2005-1790 - CVE-2005-1791
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-05-28
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A vulnerability was identified in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which may be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. The flaw resides in the "jscript.dll" file that does not properly handle malformed Javascript "onLoad" events, which may be exploited via a specially crafted HTML page to crash the browser.
Another issue was reported in the "urlmon.dll" module when adding a specially crafted URL to the list of restricted sites, which may cause the application to crash. This issue is not considered a security problem.
These vulnerabilities have been confirmed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP2 (fully patched).
Affected Products
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0 SP2 and prior
Note : The second issue, intially fixed in previous versions, has been reintroduced in Internet Explorer 6 SP2.
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/0646
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by Benjamin Tobias Franz
ChangeLog
2005-05-28 : Initial release
2005-05-30 : Updated Description
2005-06-02 : Updated CVE
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