CVE-2006-3890: Sky Software Fileview Activex Control

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 14.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Sky Software FileView ActiveX control, as used in WinZip 10 before build 7245 and in certain other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long FilePattern attribute in a WZFILEVIEW object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5198.

Affected products

• Sky Software Fileview Activex Control: any version
• Winzip Winzip: up to and including 10.0; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 8.1 only; version 9.0 only

Published 2006-11-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.