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CVE-2009-2576

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
22/07/2009
Last modified:
09/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:*:*:mac\+os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:*:*:mobile:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:2.0:*:mac\+os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:2.0_beta:*:mac\+os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:3.0:*:mac\+os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:3.0:*:mac_os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:3.0.1:*:windows_95:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:3.01:*:mac\+os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:3.1:*:mac_os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:4.0:*:mac\+os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:4.0:*:mac_os:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:4.0:*:windows_98:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:4.0:*:windows_nt:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:4.0:a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1:*:mac_os:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools