National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2009-2576)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-2576

Original release date:07/22/2009

Last revised:08/07/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via a long Unicode string argument to the write method, a related issue to CVE-2009-2479. NOTE: it was later reported that 7.0.6000.16473 and earlier are also affected.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 10.0

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable

Access Complexity: Low

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

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External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090720 Re: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090720 RE: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090719 DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/

Hyperlink:http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090725 DoS vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20090725 Re: DoS vulnerabilities in Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Chrome

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html

Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:::mobile

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:2.0::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:2.0_beta::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.0.1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.0.1::windows_95

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.0.2

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.0::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.0::mac_os

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.01::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.1::mac_os

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:3.2

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1::mac_os

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1::windows_95

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1::windows_98

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1::windows_nt

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1:sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0.1:sp2

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0::mac_os

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0::windows_98

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0::windows_nt

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0:a

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.01

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.01:sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.0a::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.1::windows_95

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.1::windows_98

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.1::windows_nt_4.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.40.308

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.40.520

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.5

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.5::mac_os

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.5::macintosh

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.70.1155

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.70.1158

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.70.1215

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.70.1300

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.71.1008.3

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.71.1712.6

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.72.2106.8

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.72.3110.8

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.72.3612.1713

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:4.x

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1::windows_2000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1::windows_95

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1::windows_98

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1::windows_nt_4.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1:sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1:sp2

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0.1:sp4

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0::macos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0::mobile

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0::windows

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0::windows_95

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0::windows_98

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0::windows_nt_4.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0:sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0:sp4

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.0_ta3

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.0518.10

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.0910.1309

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.2014.0216

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.2516.1900

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.2614.3500

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.2919.6307

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.2919.800

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.2920.0000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.3103.1000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.3314.2101

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.3502.1000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.3700.1000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.01

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.01::windows_server_2003

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.01:sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.01:sp3

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.3105.0106

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.00.3315.1000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6:sp1:windows_xpsp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6:sp1:windows_millennium

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6:sp1:windows_98_se

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6:sp1:windows_98

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6:sp1:windows_2000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6:sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6::windows_xp_professional_64bit

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6::windows_server_2003

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6::windows_2000

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6::microsoft_windows_server_2003_sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6.0.2800.1106

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6.0.2800

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6.0.2600

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5::windows_nt_4.0

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.x

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.50.4807.2300

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.50.4522.1800

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.50.4308.2900

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.50.4134.0600

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.50.4134.0100

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.50.4030.2400

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.50.3825.1300

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.5:sp2

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.5:sp1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.5:preview

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.5

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.22

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.2::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.2.3::macintosh

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.2.3::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.2.3

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.1::mac_os

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.1::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.1.7::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.1.1::mac%2Bos

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:5.1

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6.0.2900.2180 and previous versions

* cpe:/a:microsoft:ie:6.0.2900

* Denotes Vulnerable Software

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

Resource Management Errors (CWE-399)

CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2576