CVE-2006-3899

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the stringToBinary function of the CEnroll.CEnroll.2 ActiveX object with a long second argument, which triggers an invalid memory access inside the SysAllocStringLen function.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2006-07-27

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft)

References

• http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-21-cenroll-stringtobinary.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/27230
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2916
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27884