CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2668
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180 and 7 through 7.0.6000.16473 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags, a related issue to CVE-2009-1232.
Affected configurations
• microsoft internet explorer 6
• microsoft internet explorer 7
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/ websecurity.com.ua
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html archives.neohapsis.com
- http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/ websecurity.com.ua