Description
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 20060912, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via a long URL in a GZIP-encoded website that was the target of an HTTP redirect, due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2006-3869.
References
- ie-url-compression-bo(28893) vdb-entry
- MS06-042 vendor-advisory
- 1555 third-party-advisory
- 20060912 [EEYEB-20080824] Internet Explorer Compressed Content URL Heap Overflow Vulnerability #2 mailing-list
- http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/published/AD20060912.html
- http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/007870.html
- 1016839 vdb-entry
- 19987 vdb-entry
- 30834 vdb-entry