Security Advisory

CVE-2006-3873

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-09-12 23:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 18:48:39
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

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.