CVE-2004-2434 (GCVE-0-2004-2434)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2005-08-18 04:00
Modified
2024-08-08 01:29
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a link with "::{" (colon colon left brace), which triggers a null dereference when the user attempts to save the link using "Save As" and Internet Explorer prepares an error message with an attacker-controlled format string.
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