Microsoft Internet Explorer Cascading Style-Sheet (CSS) bold font denial of service
| ie-css-bold-dos (9367) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Microsoft Internet Explorer is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. A remote attacker can create a malicious Web page containing a Cascading Style-Sheet (CSS) with a bold font weight to cause Internet Explorer to crash once the Web page is viewed.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 9, 2011.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Sat Jun 15 2002 - 06:46:40 CDT: IE 5.-6 CSS parsing error.
- BID-5027: Microsoft Internet Explorer CSSText Bold Font Denial Of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-1705: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 through 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) with the p{cssText} element declared and a bold font weight.
Platforms Affected:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP3
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP4
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Preview
- Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Reported:
Jun 15, 2002
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