National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2433

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in the AddFavorite method in Microsoft Internet Explorer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via a long URL in the first argument.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 35620

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35620

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 9100

Hyperlink:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9100

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12829

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12829

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12829

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12829