National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3351

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 18838

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18838

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060706 Re: Windows Explorer URL File format overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/439660/100/200/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060705 Windows Explorer URL File format overflow

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/439153/100/0/threaded

External Source: XF

Name: win-explorer-url-dos(27567)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27567

External Source: SREASON

Name: 1186

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1186