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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.353 (98.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.353 · newest: 0.353 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 6.0
References
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-046 (vendor-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/159220 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2634 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27573 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442733/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/26835 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2635 (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)