CVE-2006-5559

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
72.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: October 27, 2006 (7139 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The Execute method in the ADODB.Connection 2.7 and 2.8 ActiveX control objects (ADODB.Connection.2.7 and ADODB.Connection.2.8) in the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.5 SP3, 2.7 SP1, 2.8, and 2.8 SP1 does not properly track freed memory when the second argument is a BSTR, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain strings in the second and third arguments.

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

microsoft data access components

References

🔗 blogs.technet.com 🔗 research.eeye.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org