CVE-2006-3357

Heap-based buffer overflow in HTML Help ActiveX control (hhctrl.ocx) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…

published July 6, 2006

CVSS

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EPSS

35%

Percentile

98.4

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

Heap-based buffer overflow in HTML Help ActiveX control (hhctrl.ocx) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by repeatedly setting the Image field of an Internet.HHCtrl.1 object to certain values, possibly related to improper escaping and long strings.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS: Not scored
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.35274 · 98.4th percentile
Published: 2006-07-06T20:00Z

EPSS history

Timeline

06 JUL 20:00Z
Heap-based buffer overflow in HTML Help ActiveX control (hhctrl.ocx) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
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