Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.
Metrics
CVSS 2.0 5.0/10
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:PWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | n/a | n/a |
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded
Timeline
- Published
- Jul 22, 2009
- Last modified
- Jun 16, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified