CVE-2006-3351

Severity

54%

Complexity

49%

Confidentiality

115%

Buffer overflow in Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) on Windows XP and 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (repeated crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .url file with an InternetShortcut tag containing a long URL and a large number of "file:" specifiers.

Buffer overflow in Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) on Windows XP and 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (repeated crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .url file with an InternetShortcut tag containing a long URL and a large number of "file:" specifiers.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.4. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: high. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft

First reported 18 years ago

2006-07-06 01:05:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-18 16:46:00

Affected Software

Microsoft windows xp_gold

Microsoft Windows XP (gold) Home Edition

Microsoft Windows XP Professional Gold

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 embedded

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 1 Home Edition

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 media_center

Microsoft windows xp_sp1 tablet_pc

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 Home Edition

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 media_center

Microsoft windows xp_sp2 tablet_pc

References

1186

20060705 Windows Explorer URL File format overflow

20060706 Re: Windows Explorer URL File format overflow

18838

Exploit

win-explorer-url-dos(27567)

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