CVE-2006-4301

medium

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long Color attribute in multiple DirectX Media Image DirectX Transforms ActiveX COM Objects from (a) dxtmsft.dll and (b) dxtmsft3.dll, including (1) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.MaskFilter.1, (2) DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Chroma.1, and (3) DX3DTransform.Microsoft.Shapes.1.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4251

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/28516

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/443907/100/0/threaded

http://www.osvdb.org/29525

http://www.osvdb.org/29524

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1439

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-08-23

Updated: 2026-04-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.39378