CVE-2006-3873

8Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackepss 29%

exploitation probability

29%top 2% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

Heap-based buffer overflow in URLMON.DLL in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1 on Windows 2000 and XP SP1, with versions the MS06-042 patch before 20060912, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL in a GZIP-encoded website that was the target of an HTTP redirect, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3869.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20060912.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1555 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016839 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28893 http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007870.html http://www.osvdb.org/30834 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445835/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19987