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CVE-2009-2655

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.3 Published: 2009-08-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Windows XpMicrosoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-20

References