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GSD-2007-2161

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.
Aliases
Aliases

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