{
    "id": "CVE-2004-0842",
    "published": "2004-12-23 05:00:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 22:06:30",
    "cvss_score": "7.5",
    "cvss_severity": "HIGH",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "cwe": null,
    "description": "Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and earlier, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from \"memory corruption\") via certain malformed Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) elements that trigger heap-based buffer overflows, as demonstrated using the \"<STYLE>@;/*\" string, possibly due to a missing comment terminator that may cause an invalid length to trigger a large memory copy operation, aka the \"CSS Heap Memory Corruption Vulnerability.\"",
    "epss_score": "0.56607",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99033",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-27 18:17:04",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "avaya",
            "product": "definity_one_media_server"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "avaya",
            "product": "ip600_media_servers"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "avaya",
            "product": "modular_messaging_message_storage_server"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "avaya",
            "product": "s3400"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "avaya",
            "product": "s8100"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "ie"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "microsoft",
            "product": "internet_explorer"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "24328",
            "title": "Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 - Style Tag Comment Memory Corruption",
            "date": "2004-07-08",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24328"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109107496214572&w=2",
        "http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=109060455614702&w=2",
        "http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=109102919426844&w=2",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/12806",
        "http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-006.shtml",
        "http://www.ecqurity.com/adv/IEstyle.html",
        "http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/291304",
        "http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5NP042KF5A.html",
        "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10816",
        "http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA04-293A.html",
        "https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2004/ms04-038",
        "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16675",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2906",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A3372",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A4169",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5592",
        "https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6579",
        "http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=109107496214572&w=2",
        "http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=109060455614702&w=2",
        "http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=109102919426844&w=2",
        "http://secunia.com/advisories/12806",
        "http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/p-006.shtml",
        "http://www.ecqurity.com/adv/IEstyle.html",
        "http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/291304",
        "http://www.securiteam.com/exploits/5NP042KF5A.html"
    ]
}