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CVE-2009-2576

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2009-07-22 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft IeMicrosoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References