First published: Wed Dec 31 2003(Updated: )
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating a web page or HTML e-mail with a textarea in a div element whose scrollbar-base-color is modified by a CSS style, which is then moved.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Internet Explorer | =6 |
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The severity of CVE-2003-1505 is classified as a denial of service vulnerability.
To fix CVE-2003-1505, users should upgrade to a later version of Internet Explorer that is not affected.
CVE-2003-1505 affects users of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0.
CVE-2003-1505 is associated with remote denial of service attacks.
The impact of exploiting CVE-2003-1505 is the crashing of the web browser used by the victim.