CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3873

7.5 HIGH Published 2006-09-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-09-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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 20060912, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL in a GZIP-encoded website that was the target of an HTTP redirect, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3869.

Affected configurations

• microsoft ie 6.0 • microsoft windows 2000 • microsoft windows 2003 server 64-bit • microsoft windows 2003 server itanium • microsoft windows 2003 server r2 • microsoft windows 2003 server sp1 • microsoft windows xp

References