Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2006-5162. PoCs published by Firestorm.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit triggers a stack overflow in wininet.dll by sending an excessively large Content-Type header (1.1M 'A's) to Internet Explorer, causing a crash (DoS). It sets up a local HTTP server to deliver the malicious response.
Description
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.
Exploits (1)
This exploit triggers a stack overflow in wininet.dll by sending an excessively large Content-Type header (1.1M 'A's) to Internet Explorer, causing a crash (DoS). It sets up a local HTTP server to deliver the malicious response.