CVE-2009-2576

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

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

Type

Microsoft

First reported 15 years ago

2009-07-22 18:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-10 19:40:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

3.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.1

3.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.2

3.0.2

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.1

3.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.2

3.2

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0

4.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.1

4.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.1 SP1

4.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.1 SP2

4.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01

4.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 SP1

4.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.1

4.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5

4.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 1.0

4.40.308

Microsoft Internet Explorer 2.0

4.40.520

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0

4.70.1155

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 (Windows 95 OSR2)

4.70.1158

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.01

4.70.1215

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 and 3.02a

4.70.1300

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview 2.0 (PP2)

4.71.1008.3

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0

4.71.1712.6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01

4.72.2106.8

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1 (Windows 98)

4.72.3110.8

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 2

4.72.3612.1713

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5

5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0

5.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1

5.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP1

5.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 SP2

5.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 Service Pack 4

5.0.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Developer Preview (Beta 1)

5.00.0518.10

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Beta (Beta 2)

5.00.0910.1309

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5

5.00.2014.0216

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (Windows 2000 Beta 3, build 5.00.2031)

5.00.2516.1900

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 (Windows 98 Second Edition)

5.00.2614.3500

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (Windows 2000 RC1, build 5.00.2072)

5.00.2919.800

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (Office 2000 SR-1)

5.00.2919.6307

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (Windows 2000, build 5.00.2195)

5.00.2920.0000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 (Windows 2000 SP1)

5.00.3103.1000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1 (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0)

5.00.3105.0106

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 (Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0)

5.00.3314.2101

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2 (Windows 2000 SP2)

5.00.3315.1000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP3 (Windows 2000 SP3 only)

5.00.3502.1000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 (Windows 2000 SP4 only)

5.00.3700.1000

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01

5.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP1

5.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP3

5.01

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1

5.1

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3

5.2.3

Microsoft ie 5.5

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 preview

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP1

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 SP2

5.5

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Developer Preview (Beta)

5.50.3825.1300

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and Internet Tools Beta

5.50.4030.2400

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows Me (4.90.3000)

5.50.4134.0100

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5

5.50.4134.0600

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Advanced Security Privacy Beta

5.50.4308.2900

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 1

5.50.4522.1800

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Service Pack 2

5.50.4807.2300

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1

6

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

6.0

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2600

6.0.2600

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800

6.0.2800

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106

6.0.2800.1106

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900

6.0.2900

Microsoft Internet Explorer

References

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