CVE-2006-2056
First published: Wed Apr 26 2006(Updated: )
Argument injection vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 for Windows XP SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to modify command line arguments to an invoked mail client via " (double quote) characters in a mailto: scheme handler, as demonstrated by launching Microsoft Outlook with an arbitrary filename as an attachment. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue is implementation-specific or a problem in the Microsoft API.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Ie | =6-windows_xp_sp2 | |
| All of | ||
| Microsoft Internet Explorer | =6.0 | |
| Microsoft Windows XP | =sp2 |
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