01 Record
CVE-2006-3451
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: microsoft
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 41.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-08-08 23:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 18:30Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-07-07
- Assigning CNA
- microsoft
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20Improper Input ValidationClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 41606f25fccdc708d9f9cc4a69fd94fe9a51216ec19cf48c23c209c8d949c21e
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttp://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-026.html
- www.securityfocus.com20060808 ZDI-06-026: Microsoft Internet Explorer Multiple CSS Imports Memory Corruption Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442578/100/0/threaded
- securitytracker.com1016663http://securitytracker.com/id?1016663
- docs.microsoft.comMS06-042https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-042
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:5https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#262004http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/262004
- secunia.com21396http://secunia.com/advisories/21396
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-3212http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3212
- securityreason.com1343http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1343
- www.osvdb.org27854http://www.osvdb.org/27854
- www.us-cert.govTA06-220Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html
- www.securityfocus.com19316http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19316