CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2655
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-03
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the JavaScript findText method with a crafted Unicode string in the first argument, and only one additional argument, as demonstrated by a second argument of -1.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 7
• microsoft internet explorer 8
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9253 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35799 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52249 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12700 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9253 www.exploit-db.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35799 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52249 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12700 oval.cisecurity.org