VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-2576

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability14.88%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-07-22
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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