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CVE-2006-3351

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.4 Published: 2006-07-06 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) on Windows XP and 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (repeated crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a .url file with an InternetShortcut tag containing a long URL and a large number of "file:" specifiers.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows XpMicrosoft Windows 2003 Server

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References