CVE-2001-1218 (GCVE-0-2001-1218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-15 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 04:51
VLAI
Summary
Microsoft Internet Explorer for Unix 5.0SP1 allows local users to possibly cause a denial of service (crash) in CDE or the X server on Solaris 2.6 by rapidly scrolling Chinese characters or maximizing the window.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/246611 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3729 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
Date Public
2001-12-20 00:00
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