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CVE-2009-2655

medium · 4.3

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.

4.3
CVSS
22.6%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2009-08-03
Published

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftinternet_explorer7
microsoftinternet_explorer8
microsoftwindows_xpall versions

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References

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