# CVE-2006-7206: Denial of service in n/a

> Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer 6 by triggering an invalid memory access via specific ADODB.Recordset calls, requiring user interaction to visit a malicious page.

- **Severity:** High 7.8 (`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 22 Jun 2007
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-m53r-x65q-r823

## What is CVE-2006-7206?

CVE-2006-7206 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 22 Jun 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating a ADODB.Recordset object and making a series of calls to the NextRecordset method with a long string argument, which causes an "invalid memory access" in the SysFreeString function, a different issue than CVE-2006-3510 and CVE-2006-3899.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-7206?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Microsoft Internet Explorer.

## How do I fix CVE-2006-7206?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-7206 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2006-7206 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-7206 exists.

Public exploit code:

- Microsoft Internet Explorer - Recordset Double-Free Memory (MS07-009) (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Internet Explorer

- [CVE-2014-1776](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-1776/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption (critical 9.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2021-27085](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-27085/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-0222](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-0222/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Remote Code Execution (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-0210](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-0210/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-0149](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-0149/): Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-7206 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2006-7206 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 22 Jun 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-7206 exists.

Affected product: Microsoft Internet Explorer. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-7206/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-7206/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7206
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7206
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-7206

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