CVE-2006-4777
highpriority · attend · 68EPSS 0.798 · 100 %ileexploit · functionalEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Heap-based buffer overflow in the DirectAnimation Path Control (DirectAnimation.PathControl) COM object (daxctle.ocx) for Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1, on Chinese and possibly other Windows distributions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown manipulations in arguments to the KeyFrame method, possibly related to an integer overflow, as demonstrated by daxctle2, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4446.
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exploits (4)
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- EDB-2358Microsoft Internet Explorer - COM Object Remote Heap Overflowfunctional · exploit_db
affected products (2)
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also known as (2)
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references (36)
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/21910enisa_euvd
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1577enisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016854enisa_euvd
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/377369enisa_euvd
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/925444.mspxenisa_euvd
- http://www.osvdb.org/28842enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/445898/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446065/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
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