FKIE_CVE-2006-3873
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-09-12 23:07 - Updated: 2026-04-16 00:27
Severity ?
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 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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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_2003_server | sp1 | |
| microsoft | windows_xp | * | |
| microsoft | windows_xp | * | |
| microsoft | windows_xp | * |
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