Intrusion PreventionMS.IE.HTML.Parsing.DoS
Description
This indicates a possible exploit of a Denial of Service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer.
An attacker may exploit these issues by enticing a user to visit a malicious site resulting in a denial of service condition in the application. This is due to an error in the HTML parsing engine when handling certain combinations of HTML tags.
Affected Products
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 and earlier versions.
Impact
Denial of Service.
Recommended Actions
Apply appropriate patch from the vendor if available.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 11578 |
| Created | Jan 03, 2006 |
| Updated | Mar 04, 2022 |
| Risk |
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| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | IE |