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CVE-2009-2433

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Ie: 8.0b
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: 7, 7.0, 7.0-beta, 7.0-beta1, 7.0-beta2, 7.0-beta3 (+7)

References

• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9100
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35620
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12829
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9100
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35620
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12829

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