CVE-2007-2161

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

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 17 years ago

2007-04-22 19:19:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-16 16:42:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0

7.0

References

43314

20070417 Internet Explorer Crash

20070417 Re: Internet Explorer Crash

20070418 Re: Internet Explorer Crash

ie-unspecified-dos(33715)

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