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CVE-2006-3873

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/09/2006
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:6.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:sp4:*:fr:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:64-bit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:itanium:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:r2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:sp1:*:itanium:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:64-bit:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp1:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:sp2:tablet_pc:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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