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CVE-2006-6659

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 17.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Microsoft Office Outlook Recipient ActiveX control (ole32.dll) in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 hang) via crafted HTML.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 7.0
• Microsoft Outlook: all versions
• Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3: all versions

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017397
• http://shinnai.altervista.org/viewtopic.php?id=41&t_id=8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21649
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017397
• http://shinnai.altervista.org/viewtopic.php?id=41&t_id=8
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21649

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