FKIE_CVE-2006-3351
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-07-06 01:05 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:26
Severity
Summary
Buffer overflow in Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) on Windows XP and 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (repeated crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .url file with an InternetShortcut tag containing a long URL and a large number of "file:" specifiers.
References
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