CVE-2006-3873

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-3873
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-12 23:07:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:32:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Microsoft Ie 6.0 sp1 All All
Application Microsoft Ie 6.0 sp1 All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 All sp4 All fr
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 All sp4 All fr
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server 64-bit All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server itanium All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server r2 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server sp1 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server sp1 All itanium All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server 64-bit All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server itanium All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server r2 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server sp1 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server sp1 All itanium All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All All 64-bit All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp1 tablet_pc All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp2 tablet_pc All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All All 64-bit All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp1 tablet_pc All
Operating System Microsoft Windows Xp All sp2 tablet_pc All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
InfoWorld Tech Watch | InfoWorld | Three's a charm for MS06-042? | September 12, 2006 12:50 PM | By Paul Roberts MISC weblog.infoworld.com Patch
SecurityReason - Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability #2 SREASON securityreason.com
30834 OSVDB www.osvdb.org
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-042 - Critical | Microsoft Docs MS docs.microsoft.com
Microsoft Internet Explorer HTTP 1.1 and Compression Long URI Buffer Overflow Variant Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Microsoft Internet Explorer URLMON.DLL Buffer Overflow Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code SECTRACK securitytracker.com
eEye Digital Security - Research MISC research.eeye.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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