CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-1189
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-04-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in URLMON.DLL in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 through 6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL with an International Domain Name (IDN) using double-byte character sets (DBCS), aka the "Double Byte Character Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5.01
• microsoft internet explorer 5.1
• microsoft internet explorer 5.5
• microsoft internet explorer 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0227.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18957 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015900 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/341028 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17454 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-101A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1318 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-013 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25551 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1020 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1484 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A792 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-04/0227.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18957 Vendor Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1015900 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/341028 US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17454 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-101A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1318 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-013 docs.microsoft.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25551 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1020 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1484 oval.cisecurity.org
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A792 oval.cisecurity.org