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Microsoft Internet Explorer has been reported prone to a denial of service condition when handling certain DHTML objects. It has been reported that an attacker may craft a malicious DHTML page containing a malformed 'AnchorClick' link, upon following the malicious link, Internet Explorer will fail. This issue is believed to be as a result of an illegal exception thrown while attempting to access a null pointer. This issue will only affect the active Internet Explorer window, inactive Internet Explorer windows are not affected. It should be noted that, although this vulnerability has been reported to affect Internet Explorer version 6.0 SP1, previous versions might also be affected.

Microsoft Internet Explorer has been reported prone to a denial of service condition when handling certain DHTML objects. It has been reported that an attacker may craft a malicious DHTML page containing a malformed 'AnchorClick' link, upon following the malicious link, Internet Explorer will fail. This issue is believed to be as a result of an illegal exception thrown while attempting to access a null pointer. This issue will only affect the active Internet Explorer window, inactive Internet Explorer windows are not affected. It should be noted that, although this vulnerability has been reported to affect Internet Explorer version 6.0 SP1, previous versions might also be affected.