CVE-2006-1992: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Low severity, CVSS 2.6. EPSS: 40.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mshtml.dll 6.00.2900.2873, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via nested OBJECT tags, which trigger invalid pointer dereferences including NULL dereferences. NOTE: the possibility of code execution was originally theorized, but Microsoft has stated that this issue is non-exploitable.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0.2900 only

Published 2006-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.