Vulnerability CVE-2006-3873
Published: 2006-09-12   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability #2
eEye Advisories
18.09.2006

Type:

CWE-Other

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 
Microsoft -> Windows 2000 
Microsoft -> Windows 2003 server 
Microsoft -> Windows xp 

 References:
http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20060912.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1555
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016839
http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007870.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445835/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19987
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28893
Copyright 2024, cxsecurity.com

 

Back to Top