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CVE-2006-3873
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…
High7.5EPSS 29.4%
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- Updated
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- microsoft
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 29.4% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
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Affected products
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References (9)
- ie-url-compression-bo(28893) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- MS06-042 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 1555 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20060912 [EEYEB-20080824] Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability #2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20060912.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007870.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1016839 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 19987 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 30834 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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