CVE-2009-2655 (GCVE-0-2009-2655)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-08-03 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:59
VLAI
Summary
mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by calling the JavaScript findText method with a crafted Unicode string in the first argument, and only one additional argument, as demonstrated by a second argument of -1.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35799 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9253 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
Date Public
2009-07-24 00:00
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