CVE-2007-2164 (GCVE-0-2007-2164)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-04-22 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:23
VLAI
Summary
Konqueror 3.5.5 release 45.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash or abort) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466147/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2600 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Date Public
2007-04-17 00:00
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