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CVE-2006-3873

VendormicrosoftProductwindows 2003 server, windows 2000, windows xp, ieDiscoveredSep 12, 2006UpdatedApr 16, 2026

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.

CVSS v3.1
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EPSS
29.4%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
0
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Sep 12, 2006
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Apr 16, 2026