CVE-2006-3873

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - secure@microsoft.com

Published

2006-09-12

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Ie (Microsoft)
• Windows 2000 (Microsoft)
• Windows 2003 Server (Microsoft)
• Windows Xp (Microsoft)

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.osvdb.org/30834
• 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