National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1335
Original release date:04/17/2009
Last revised:05/13/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows XP and Vista allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application hang) via a large document composed of unprintable characters, aka MSRC 9011jr.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: XF
Name: ie-unprintable-dos(50350)
External Source: BID
Name: 34478
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20090411 [BMSA 2009-04] Remote DoS in Internet Explorer
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20090411 [BMSA 2009-04] Remote DoS in Internet Explorer