cve/2006/CVE-2006-5162.md

### [CVE-2006-5162](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-5162)
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### Description

wininet.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unhandled exception and crash) via a long Content-Type header, which triggers a stack overflow.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1683
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2039

#### Github
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