CVE-2006-3899
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the stringToBinary function of the CEnroll.CEnroll.2 ActiveX object with a long second argument, which triggers an…
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Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the stringToBinary function of the CEnroll.CEnroll.2 ActiveX object with a long second argument, which triggers an invalid memory access inside the SysAllocStringLen function.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 24.27% probability · 98th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/internet explorer
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-21-cenroll-stringtobinary.htmlBroken Link
- http://www.osvdb.org/27230Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2916Not Applicable
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-21-cenroll-stringtobinary.htmlBroken Link
- http://www.osvdb.org/27230Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19102Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2916Not Applicable
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27884Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.