CVE-2004-1198

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and then sorts the newly created arrays.

Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash from memory consumption), as demonstrated using Javascript code that continuously creates nested arrays and then sorts the newly created arrays.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 20 years ago

2004-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:30:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

References

20041125 MSIE & FIREFOX flaws: "detailed" advisory and comments that you probably don't want to read anyway

Vendor Advisory

20041125 MSIE flaws: nested array sort() loop Stack overflow exception

11751

Exploit, Vendor Advisory

web-browser-array-dos(18282)

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