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CVE-2006-3898

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2006-07-27 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the Click method of the Internet.HHCtrl.1 ActiveX object before initializing the URL, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References