CVE-2006-0544: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 21.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 7.0 only

Published 2006-02-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.