CVE-2006-4446

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
76.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: August 30, 2006 (7197 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in DirectAnimation.PathControl COM object (daxctle.ocx) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Spline function call whose first argument specifies a large number of points.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft ie

References

🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securityreason.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.osvdb.org 🔗 www.securityfocus.com