CVE-2006-3869 (GCVE-0-2006-3869)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-08-23 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 18:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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 20060824, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL on a website that uses HTTP 1.1 compression.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
15 references
Date Public
2006-08-22 00:00
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