CVE-2007-3550 (GCVE-0-2007-3550)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-07-03 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:21 Disputed
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and 7.0 allows remote attackers to fill Zones with arbitrary domains using certain metacharacters such as wildcards via JavaScript, which results in a denial of service (website suppression and resource consumption), aka "Internet Explorer Zone Domain Specification Dos and Page Suppressing". NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, who states that the zone settings cannot be manipulated
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://osvdb.org/45814 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485536/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24744 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2855 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/472651/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/473662 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.secniche.org/advisory/Internet_Dos_Adv.pdf x_refsource_MISC
Date Public
2007-06-21 00:00
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