CVE-2009-2576

high

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-07-22

Updated: 2021-07-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High