CVE-2009-2668

Microsoft Internet Explorer <6.0.2900.2180 & 7.0.6000.16473 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/

Scores

EPSS 0.1447
EPSS Percentile 96.3%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (2)
microsoft/internet_explorer 6
microsoft/internet_explorer 7
Published Aug 05, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026