Vulnerability CVE-2006-3351
Published: 2006-07-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Windows Explorer URL File format overflow
nanika chroot or...
06.07.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5.4/10
6.9/10
4.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
High
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Complete
Affected software
Microsoft -> Windows 2003 server 
Microsoft -> Windows xp 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1186
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439153/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439660/100/200/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18838
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27567
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