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FKIE_CVE-2002-0101

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2002-03-25 05:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 21:56

Severity

Summary

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service via an infinite loop for modeless dialogs showModelessDialog, which causes CPU usage while the focus for the dialog is not released.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101039104608083&w=2
cve@mitre.org	http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7826.php	Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.org	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3789
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101039104608083&w=2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7826.php	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3789

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
microsoft	internet_explorer	5.5
microsoft	internet_explorer	5.5
microsoft	internet_explorer	5.5
microsoft	internet_explorer	6.0

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CVE-2002-0101 (GCVE-0-2002-0101)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2002-03-15 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:35

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
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http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101039104608083&w=2	mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7826.php	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Date Public

2002-01-06 00:00

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Sightings

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