CVE-2006-2766

Severity

26%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

48%

Buffer overflow in INETCOMM.DLL, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 6.0 SP2, Windows Explorer, Outlook Express 6, and possibly other programs, allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long mhtml URI in the URL value in a URL file.

Buffer overflow in INETCOMM.DLL, as used in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 6.0 SP2, Windows Explorer, Outlook Express 6, and possibly other programs, allows remote user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long mhtml URI in the URL value in a URL file.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 18 years ago

2006-06-02 10:18:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-18 16:41:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

Microsoft ie 7.0_beta1

7.0

Microsoft ie 7.0_beta2

7.0

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