PT-2009-4976 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2009-07-22 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2009-2576

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, consuming CPU and memory, via a long Unicode string argument to the write method.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier, update to a version later than 6.0.2900.2180 to resolve the issue. For Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier, update to a version later than 7.0.6000.16473 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2576

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 7

• 🔥 http://websecurity.com.ua/3338 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2576 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html · Note
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html · Note