Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-3897 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Stack overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by creating an NMSA.ASFSourceMediaDescription.1 ActiveX object with a long dispValue property.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 | |
| OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Exploit-Db
| description | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 NMSA.ASFSourceMediaDescription Stack Overflow Vulnerability. CVE-2006-3897. Dos exploit for windows platform |
| id | EDB-ID:28259 |
| last seen | 2016-02-03 |
| modified | 2006-07-24 |
| published | 2006-07-24 |
| reporter | hdm |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/28259/ |
| title | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 NMSA.ASFSourceMediaDescription Stack Overflow Vulnerability |