Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
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 (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.
EPSS: 0.353 (98.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet_explorer — versions 6.0
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)