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GSD-2008-4381

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:23
Details
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via Javascript that calls the alert function with a URL-encoded string of a large number of invalid characters.
Aliases
Aliases

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