CVE-2006-3899

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
17.4%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 5% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: July 27, 2006 (7231 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft internet explorer

References

🔗 browserfun.blogspot.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com 🔗 www.vupen.com 🔗 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com