CVE-2006-6659: Microsoft Ie

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 17.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Microsoft Office Outlook Recipient ActiveX control (ole32.dll) in Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 hang) via crafted HTML.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: version 7.0 only
• Microsoft Outlook: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2006-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.