CVE-2009-0072

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 8.0 beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an onload=screen[""] attribute value in a BODY element.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 through 8.0 beta2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an onload=screen[""] attribute value in a BODY element.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Internet Explorer

First reported 16 years ago

2009-01-08 19:30:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-08-08 01:33:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1

6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7

7

References

http://skypher.com/index.php/2009/01/07/msie-screen-null-ptr-dos-details/

33149

Exploit

ie-javascript-screen-dos(47788)

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