CVE-2006-3438

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Hyperlink Object Library (hlink.dll), possibly a buffer overflow, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted hyperlinks that are not properly handled when hlink.dll "uses a file containing a malformed function," aka "Hyperlink Object Function Vulnerability."

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Hyperlink Object Library (hlink.dll), possibly a buffer overflow, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted hyperlinks that are not properly handled when hlink.dll "uses a file containing a malformed function," aka "Hyperlink Object Function Vulnerability."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-08-09 00:04:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 21:40:00

Affected Software

Microsoft hyperlink_object_library

References

1016659

VU#683612

Patch, US Government Resource

19405

TA06-220A

Patch, US Government Resource

MS06-050

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:115

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