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CVE-2009-2668 (GCVE-0-2009-2668)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-05 19:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 03:07
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Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180 and 7 through 7.0.6000.16473 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags, a related issue to CVE-2009-1232.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/20… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/ x_refsource_MISC
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