PT-2007-3503 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2007-04-22 · Updated 2022-02-19 · CVE-2007-2161

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a browser hang, by utilizing JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 7, consider disabling JavaScript execution until a patch is available to prevent the denial of service.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-2161

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 6

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-2161 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://osvdb.org/43314 · Note