CVE-2006-3451

Microsoft Internet Explorer <6 - RCE

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 SP4 and 6 do not properly garbage collect when "multiple imports are used on a styleSheets collection" to construct a chain of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-026.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442578/100/0/threaded
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016663
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5
Patch, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/262004
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/21396
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3212
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1343
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/27854
Patch, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19316

Scores

EPSS 0.4122
EPSS Percentile 98.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
microsoft/ie 5.0 sp4
microsoft/ie 6 windows_server_2003_sp1
Published Aug 08, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026