Vulnerability in Microsoft Ie
CVE-2006-4446
Heap-based buffer overflow in DirectAnimation.PathControl COM object (daxctle.ocx) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Spline function call whose first argument specifies a large number of points.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.622 (99.2th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 99th percentile — 99.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.622 · newest: 0.622 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Ie — versions 6.0
References
- secunia.com/advisories/21910 (third-party-advisory)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/1468 (third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-318A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444504/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28608 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/28841 (vdb-entry)
- www.xsec.org/index.php
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:437 (signature, vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-067 (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)