CVE-2006-4446: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 62.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in DirectAnimation.PathControl COM object (daxctle.ocx) in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Spline function call whose first argument specifies a large number of points.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.