CVE-2006-3873

high Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
46.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: September 12, 2006 (7183 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft iemicrosoft windows 2000microsoft windows 2003 servermicrosoft windows xp

References

🔗 research.eeye.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 weblog.infoworld.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org