Microsoft Windows Explorer Invalid URL File Parsing Stack Overflow (CVE-2006-3351)

The Microsoft Windows series of operating systems is one of the most popular systems in use on workstations, home computers, and servers. All versions of the OS include a graphical shell interface, called Windows Explorer. There exists a stack exhaustion vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Explore...

CVE-2006-3351

CVE-2006-3351 is a Windows Explorer vulnerability (explorer.exe) affecting Windows XP/2003 where parsing of .url files with InternetShortcut tags can overflow the stack. A crafted .url file containing a long URL and many file: specifiers may trigger a denial of service and possibly arbitrary code...