CVE-2006-4193: Microsoft Ie

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 47.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code by instantiating COM objects as ActiveX controls, including (1) imskdic.dll (Microsoft IME), (2) chtskdic.dll (Microsoft IME), and (3) msoe.dll (Outlook), which leads to memory corruption. NOTE: it is not certain whether the issue is in Internet Explorer or the individual DLL files.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-08-17. Last modified 2026-06-16.