CVE-2006-3873

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…

published September 12, 2006

CVSS
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EPSS
29%
Percentile
98.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.29444 · 98.2th percentile
Published
2006-09-12T23:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 SEP 23:00Z
    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…
    cvelistv5