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CVE-2006-4301

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 39.05% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2006-08-23 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2006-4301
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5
EPSS
39.05%
Microsoft

Original NVD 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.