CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4381
5.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-10-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 5
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4345 securityreason.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/03/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/03/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496830/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496926/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45639 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4345 securityreason.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/03/7 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/03/8 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496830/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496926/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45639 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com