Vulnerability · CVE-2006-5820
America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX Control Code Execution
Published Mar 3, 2008 · catalog updated Mar 3, 2008 · America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX
Patch now
CVE-2006-5820 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Gaps on this record
- The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX).
- No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
- Severity
- Unknown—
- Known exploitation
- CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 8.43%
- Remediation
- Remediation guidance
- Affected products
- vendor aol aol
The LinkSBIcons method in the SuperBuddy ActiveX control (Sb.SuperBuddy.1) in America Online 9.0 Security Edition dereferences an arbitrary function pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a modified pointer value.
Are you affected?
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The check returns affected, not affected, or incomplete. It does not guess a version that is missing from the record.
- vendor aol aolversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2006-5820
Recommended remediation
Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2006-5820 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm America Online SuperBuddy ActiveX against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Which versions are affected?
Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 8.43%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Mar 3, 2008 · VulnCheck KEV
Detected
The LinkSBIcons method in the SuperBuddy ActiveX control (Sb.SuperBuddy.1) in America Online 9.0 Security Edition dereferences an arbitrary function pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a modified pointer value.
Mar 3, 2008 · CISA KEV
Known exploited
Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2006-5820
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2006-5820
30-day exploitation probability 8.4%
first.org - VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2006-5820
The LinkSBIcons method in the SuperBuddy ActiveX control (Sb.SuperBuddy.1) in America Online 9.0 Security Edition dereferences an arbitrary function pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a modified pointer value.
vulncheck.com
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.