CVE-2006-3512: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 24.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by setting the Enabled property of a DXTFilter ActiveX object to true, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-07-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.