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High · 8.8 Public exploit CVE-2006-3730 EUVD-2006-3724GHSA-3w9c-vcrh-mvp2

Integer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execut…

Published Jul 19, 2006 · Updated Feb 25, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Integer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a 0x7fffffff argument to the setSlice method on a WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX object, which leads to an invalid memory copy.

Public exploits

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Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 5

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