CVE-2006-3869

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 43.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-08-23 · updated 2026-06-16

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 20060824, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL on a website that uses HTTP 1.1 compression.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 6.0-sp1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/21557
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1441
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016731
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923762/
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/821156
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/923762.mspx
http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0608.htm
http://www.osvdb.org/28132
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444046/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444241/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/444319/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19667

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