CVE-2002-0136 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause Internet Explorer to hang by submitting extremely long form field values via JavaScript, requiring user interaction to visit the malicious page.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2002-0136?

CVE-2002-0136 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 15 Mar 2002. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 on Windows 98 allows remote web pages to cause a denial of service (hang) via extremely long values for form fields such as INPUT and TEXTAREA, which can be automatically filled via Javascript.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0136?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0136?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0136 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2002-0136 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0136 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Microsoft Internet Explorer vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-vh4j-948q-q5cr.

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