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| Test ID: | 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900400 |
| Category: | Denial of Service |
| Title: | Microsoft Internet Explorer Unicode String DoS Vulnerability |
| Summary: | Internet Explorer is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. |
| Description: | Summary: Internet Explorer is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. Vulnerability Insight: Error exists when application fails to handle user supplied input into the 'write' method via a long Unicode string argument. Vulnerability Impact: Successful exploitation lets the attacker to cause memory or CPU consumption, resulting in Denial of Service condition. Affected Software/OS: Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0.2900.2180 and prior. Solution: No known solution was made available for at least one year since the disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore. General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one. CVSS Score: 5.0 CVSS Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Cross-Ref: |
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2009-2576 Bugtraq: 20090719 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20090720 RE: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20090725 Re: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome (Google Search) http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded Bugtraq: 20090725 DoS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (Google Search) http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/ |
| Copyright | Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG |
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