CVE-2009-2668 - 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

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HIGH

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

Published Aug 5, 2009

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 14.47%

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 products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-399

References (2)

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/
x_refsource_MISC

Link	Providers	Tags
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://websecurity.com.ua/3216/		x_refsource_MISC

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 5, 2009

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Aug 5, 2009

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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