VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-3869

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability43.69%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-08-23
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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 20060824, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL on a website that uses HTTP 1.1 compression.

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