CVE-2006-3730
highpriority · attend · 69EPSS 0.636 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
ssvc
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weaknesses
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exploits (6)
Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.
- EDB-2440Microsoft Internet Explorer - WebViewFolderIcon setSlice() Overflow (Metasploit) (1)functional · exploit_db
- EDB-2448Microsoft Internet Explorer - WebViewFolderIcon setSlice() (HTML)functional · exploit_db
- EDB-2458Microsoft Internet Explorer - WebViewFolderIcon setSlice() (1)functional · exploit_db
- EDB-2460Microsoft Internet Explorer - WebViewFolderIcon setSlice() (2)functional · exploit_db
affected products (3)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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references (40)
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- http://browserfun.blogspot.com/2006/07/mobb-18-webviewfoldericon-setslice.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1742enisa_euvd
- http://riosec.com/msie-setslice-vulnenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22159enisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016941enisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/753044enisa_euvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/27110enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447174/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
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