The scripting engine in Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a web page that contains a recurrent call to an infinite loop in Javascript or VBscript, which consumes the stack, as demonstrated by resetting the "location" variable within the loop.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-02-21T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:48:56.515Z

Reserved: 2006-02-21T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-0830

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-02-21T23:02:00.000

Modified: 2021-07-23T15:03:06.753

Link: CVE-2006-0830

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