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CVE-2002-0101 (GCVE-0-2002-0101)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-15 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:35
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop for modeless dialogs showModelessDialog, which causes CPU usage while the focus for the dialog is not released.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101039104608083&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7826.php vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Date Public
2002-01-06 00:00
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