Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 26, 2005· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2005-3312
CVE-2005-3312
Description
The HTML rendering engine in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via HTML in corrupted images and other files such as .GIF, JPG, and WAV, which is rendered as HTML when the user clicks on the link, even though the web server response and file extension indicate that it should be treated as a different file type.
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Affected products
2cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:internet_explorer:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: 6.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
5- www.computec.ch/download.phpnvdExploit
- www.scip.ch/cgi-bin/smss/showadvf.plnvdExploitVendor Advisory
- www.securiteam.com/windowsntfocus/6F00B00EBY.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- marc.infonvd
- securityreason.com/securityalert/18nvd
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