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CVE-2008-4381 (GCVE-0-2008-4381)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-10-02 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:17
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Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
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References
Date Public
2008-09-29 00:00
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