National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-4446

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in DirectAnimation.PathControl COM object (daxctle.ocx) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Spline function call whose first argument specifies a large number of points.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-318A

Name: TA06-318A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-318A.html

External Source: XF

Name: ie-daxctle-dos(28608)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/28608

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.xsec.org/index.php?module=releases&act=view&type=1&id=19

Hyperlink:http://www.xsec.org/index.php?module=releases&act=view&type=1&id=19

External Source: BID

Name: 19738

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19738

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20060827 [XSec-06-10]: Internet Explorer (daxctle.ocx) Heap Overflow Vulnerability

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/444504/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1016764

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016764

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 28841

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/28841

External Source: MS

Name: MS06-067

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms06-067.mspx

External Source: SREASON

Name: 1468

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1468

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 21910

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/21910

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:437

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:437

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:437