PT-2010-3729 · Microsoft · Internet Explorer

Published 2010-06-01 · Updated 2021-07-23 · CVE-2010-2119

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 6.0.2900.2180

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service due to resource consumption. This is achieved through JavaScript code that contains an infinite loop, which creates IFRAME elements for invalid nntp:// URIs.

Recommendations For Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0.2900.2180, consider disabling JavaScript execution of IFRAME elements for nntp:// URIs as a temporary workaround until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-2119

Affected Products

Internet Explorer

References · 3

• 🔥 http://websecurity.com.ua/4238 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2119 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511509/100/0/threaded · Note