CVE-2006-2382
HIGH severity · CVSS 10 · Memory corruption
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 encoded HTML that results in size discrepancies during conversion to Unicode, aka "HTML Decoding Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)49%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20595Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2319Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/136849
- http://www.osvdb.org/26443
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436985/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18309
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-164A.html