Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 ShowHelp Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6780/info Microsoft Internet Explorer implements the showHelp function as a means of displaying help content contained in HTML pages. However, this function is capable of performing too many other actions outside of its...

CVE-1999-1094

The vulnerability CVE-1999-1094 affects Internet Explorer 4.01 and earlier. A buffer overflow can be triggered by a long URL using the mk: protocol, enabling a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands. According to the NVD entry, the attack vector is network, with low complexity and no authe...