cve/2006/CVE-2006-3873.md

CVE-2006-3873

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.

POC

Reference

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1555
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1555
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042

Github

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