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CVE-2006-2382

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.1690%

EPSS Percentile19.57th

PublishedJun 13, 2006

Last ModifiedApr 16, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted UTF-8 encoded HTML that results in size discrepancies during conversion to Unicode, aka "HTML Decoding Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected Platforms (CPE)

📦

Microsoft

Internet Explorer

= 5.01

📦

Microsoft

Internet Explorer

= 6

References & Advisories

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/20595

🔗 http://securitytracker.com/id?1016291

🔗 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/136849

🔗 http://www.osvdb.org/26443

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/436985/100/0/threaded

🔗 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18309

🔗 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-164A.html

🔗 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2319

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