Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2006-3869
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 20060824, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL on a website that uses HTTP 1.1 compression.
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: 0.431 (98.7th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.431 · newest: 0.431 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 6.0
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28893 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/19667 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/28132 (vdb-entry)
- www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/923762.mspx (Patch)
- support.microsoft.com/kb/923762/ (Patch)
- secunia.com/advisories/21557 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0608.htm
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444241/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/821156 (US Government Resource, Patch, third-party-advisory)