CVE-2007-0612: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 43.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple ActiveX controls in Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) by accessing the bgColor, fgColor, linkColor, alinkColor, vlinkColor, or defaultCharset properties in the (1) giffile, (2) htmlfile, (3) jpegfile, (4) mhtmlfile, (5) ODCfile, (6) pjpegfile, (7) pngfile, (8) xbmfile, (9) xmlfile, (10) xslfile, or (11) wdfile objects in (a) mshtml.dll; or the (12) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument or (13) TriEditDocument.TriEditDocument.1 objects in (b) triedit.dll, which cause a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 5.0_ta3 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 5.0.1 only; version 5.5 only; version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only

Published 2007-01-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.