Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-3899 - Unspecified 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
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the stringToBinary function of the CEnroll.CEnroll.2 ActiveX object with a long second argument, which triggers an invalid memory access inside the SysAllocStringLen function.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 3 | |
| OS | 1 |
Exploit-Db
| description | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 String To Binary Function Denial Of Service Vulnerability. CVE-2006-3899 . Dos exploit for windows platform |
| id | EDB-ID:28252 |
| last seen | 2016-02-03 |
| modified | 2006-07-20 |
| published | 2006-07-20 |
| reporter | hdm |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/28252/ |
| title | Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 String To Binary Function Denial of Service Vulnerability |