CVE-2006-4777
Heap-based buffer overflow in the DirectAnimation Path Control (DirectAnimation.PathControl) COM object (daxctle.ocx) for Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, on Chinese and possibly other Windows distributions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown manipulations in arguments to the KeyFrame method, possibly related to an integer overflow, as demonstrated by daxctle2, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4446.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 79.9% (100th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-4764)
- Published
- September 14, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-4764 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/21910(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1577
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016854
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377369(US Government Resource)
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/925444.mspx
- http://www.osvdb.org/28842
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445898/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446065/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446084/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446085/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446246/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20047
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-318A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3593(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.xsec.org/index.php?module=releases&act=view&type=2&id=20
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-067
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28942
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1103
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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