CVE-2006-3730

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
86.9%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: July 21, 2006 (7237 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Integer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a 0x7fffffff argument to the setSlice method on a WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX object, which leads to an invalid memory copy.

CWE

CWE-94

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft internet explorer

References

🔗 browserfun.blogspot.com 🔗 isc.sans.org 🔗 riosec.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com