CVE-2006-3873 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2006-3873

Heap-based buffer overflow in URLMON.DLL in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6...

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ie, windows 2000, windows 2003 server, windows xp
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0, 64-bit, itanium, r2, sp1

Timeline

Official Publish: September 12th, 2006
Last Modified: August 7th, 2024
Added to House: July 18th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.