Vulnerability CVE-2006-4301
Published: 2006-08-22   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long Color attribute in multiple DirectX Media Image DirectX Transforms ActiveX COM Objects from (a) dxtmsft.dll and (b) dxtmsft3.dll, including (1) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.MaskFilter.1, (2) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Chroma.1, and (3) DX3DTransform.Microsoft.Shapes.1.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Internet Explorer Multiple COM Objects Color Property DoS Vulnerability
nop
25.08.2006

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Microsoft -> IE 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1439
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443907/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19640
http://xsec.org/index.php?module=releases&act=view&type=1&id=17
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28516
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4251
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