CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-2161
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-04-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 7.0
References
- http://osvdb.org/43314 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715 VDB Entry
- http://osvdb.org/43314 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715 VDB Entry