Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Feb 4, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-0544
CVE-2006-0544
Description
urlmon.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 beta 2 (aka 7.0.5296.0) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a BGSOUND element with its SRC attribute set to "file://" followed by a large number of "-" (dash of hyphen) characters.
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Affected products
2- Range: = 7.0 beta 2 (7.0.5296.0)
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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