CVE-2006-3897: Microsoft Internet Explorer

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 23.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows 2000 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by creating an NMSA.ASFSourceMediaDescription.1 ActiveX object with a long dispValue property.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-16.