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CVE-2006-3730

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 63.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-07-19 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Integer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a 0x7fffffff argument to the setSlice method on a WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX object, which leads to an invalid memory copy.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 6.0

References

• http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-18-webviewfoldericon-setslice.html
• http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1742
• http://riosec.com/msie-setslice-vuln
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22159
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016941
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/753044
• http://www.osvdb.org/27110
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447174/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447383/100/100/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447426/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447490/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded

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