CVE-2009-2655 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash Internet Explorer by sending a crafted Unicode string to the JavaScript findText method, requiring user interaction to visit a 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-2009-2655?
CVE-2009-2655 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, published on 3 Aug 2009. 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
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.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-2655?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Microsoft Internet Explorer.
How do I fix CVE-2009-2655?
No fix has been published for CVE-2009-2655 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-2009-2655 being exploited?
It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-2655 exists.
Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.
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- CVE-2017-0210 Microsoft Internet Explorer Privilege Escalation
- CVE-2017-0149 Microsoft Internet Explorer Memory Corruption
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pc3h-f2j5-gmm4.