Security Advisory

CVE-2006-5559

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-10-27 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 19:55:53
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.