CVE-2006-3657: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 16.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack overflow exception) via a DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient ActiveX object with a long (1) StartColorStr or (2) EndColorStr property.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6 only

Published 2006-07-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.