National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3869

Overview

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 20060824, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL on a website that uses HTTP 1.1 compression.

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#821156

Name: VU#821156

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/821156

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/923762.mspx

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/923762.mspx

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923762/

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923762/

External Source: XF

Name: ie-long-url-bo(28522)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28522

External Source: BID

Name: 19667

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19667

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060824 EEYE: Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/444241/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060822 EEYE:ALERT: MS06-042 Related Internet Explorer 'Crash' is Exploitable

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/444046/100/0/threaded

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2006-3356

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3356

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016731

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016731

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21557

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21557

External Source: XF

Name: ie-url-compression-bo(28893)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28893

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060825 NSFOCUS SA2006-08 : Microsoft IE6 urlmon.dll Long URL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/444319/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 28132

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/28132

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0608.htm

Hyperlink:http://www.nsfocus.com/english/homepage/research/0608.htm

External Source: SREASON

Name: 1441

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1441