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CVE-2009-2668

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2009-08-05 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 through 6.0.2900.2180 and 7 through 7.0.6000.16473 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an XML document composed of a long series of start-tags with no corresponding end-tags, a related issue to CVE-2009-1232.

Affected Platforms

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References