CVE-2006-0753: Microsoft Ie

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 11.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Memory leak in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP Service Pack 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via JavaScript that uses setInterval to repeatedly call a function to set the value of window.status.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6 only

Published 2006-02-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.