Security Advisory

CVE-2010-1991

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2010-05-20 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 02:17:13
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180, 7, and 8.0.7600.16385 executes a mail application in situations where an IFRAME element has a mailto: URL in its SRC attribute, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (excessive application launches) via an HTML document with many IFRAME elements.