CVE-2006-2382

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 48.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-06-13 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 encoded HTML that results in size discrepancies during conversion to Unicode, aka "HTML Decoding Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 5.01-sp4, 6-sp1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20595
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/136849
http://www.osvdb.org/26443
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436985/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18309
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-164A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2319
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-017.html
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-021
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26766
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1414

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