CVE-2006-3910: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2, when Outlook is installed, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by calling the NewDefaultItem function of an OVCtl (OVCtl.OVCtl.1) ActiveX object, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-07-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.