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CVE-2006-3873

N/A

Published: September 12, 2006 at 11:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:27 PM UTC

4 products affected across 1 vendorInternet ExplorerWindows XpWindows 2000

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 29%

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 20060912, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL in a GZIP-encoded website that was the target of an HTTP redirect, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3869.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Internet Explorer · Microsoft

95%

Windows 2000 · Microsoft

95%

sp4

Windows 2003 Server · Microsoft

95%

64-bit itanium r2 sp1

Windows Xp · Microsoft

95%

sp1sp2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (9)

x_refsource_MISC

Source: [email protected]

http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20060912.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASON

Source: [email protected]

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1555

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://securitytracker.com/id?1016839

x_refsource_MISCPatchURL Repurposed

Source: [email protected]

http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007870.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Source: [email protected]

http://www.osvdb.org/30834

Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445835/100/0/threaded

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19987

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MS

Source: [email protected]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: PARTIAL
Integrity: PARTIAL
Availability: PARTIAL

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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