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CVE-2006-3657

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 16.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2006-07-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow exception) via a DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient ActiveX object with a long (1) StartColorStr or (2) EndColorStr property.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 6-windows_server_2003_sp1
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6-sp1

References

• http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-17-dximagetransformmicrosoftgradi.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/27109
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19029
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2832
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27762
• http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-17-dximagetransformmicrosoftgradi.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/27109
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19029
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2832
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27762

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