CVE-2006-4868: Microsoft Internet Explorer

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 61.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Vector Graphics Rendering engine (vgx.dll), as used in Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP SP2, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Vector Markup Language (VML) file with a long fill parameter within a rect tag.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Explorer: version 6.0 only; version 5.0.1 only
• Microsoft Outlook: version 2003 only

Published 2006-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.