CVE-2006-5162: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 35.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2006-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.