CVE-2006-3869
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 43.7%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 43.7% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-3863)
- Published
- August 23, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-3863 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / ie
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21557(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1441
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016731
- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923762/(Patch)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/821156(Patch, US Government Resource)
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/923762.mspx(Patch)
- 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
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3356
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28522
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28893
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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