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CVE-2006-3351

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-07-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) on Windows XP and 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (repeated crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .url file with an InternetShortcut tag containing a long URL and a large number of "file:" specifiers.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: 3.1.0.3270, 64-bit, datacenter_64-bit-sp1, datacenter_64-bit-sp1_beta_1, datacenter_edition, datacenter_edition-sp1 (+27)
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: ibm_oem_version, ibm_oem_version-sp1

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1186
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439153/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439660/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18838
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27567
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1186
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439153/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439660/100/200/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18838
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27567

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