Macromedia Shockwave SWDIR.SLL ActiveX Denial of Service - Ver2 (CVE-2006-6885)

A denial-of-service vulnerability has been reported in Macromedia Shockwave. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to create a denial of service condition on the affected system...

CVE-2006-6885

The CVE describes a vulnerability in Macromedia Shockwave 10 where an ActiveX control in SwDir.dll (SwDir ActiveX) can be abused by sending a long string in the swURL attribute to cause a denial of service (IE7 crash). Affected component: SwDir.dll ActiveX control within Shockwave 10. Root cause:...