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CVE-2006-3873

Published: Sep 12, 2006

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

ie-url-compression-bo(28893)

vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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third-party-advisory

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20060912 [EEYEB-20080824] Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability #2

mailing-list

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http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20060912.html

x_refsource_MISC

http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007870.html

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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vdb-entry

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