Microsoft Internet Explorer HTTP 1.1 and Compression Long URI Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Microsoft Internet Explorer HTTP 1.1 and Compression Long URI Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote buffer-overflow vulnerability. A successful exploit may result in arbitrary code-execution in the context of the user running the browser.

This issue was introduced with the patches released with Microsoft advisory MS06-042.

Internet Explorer 6 SP1 running on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP1 is vulnerable to this issue.