CVE-2009-2576

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 14.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-07-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

Microsoft Ie: 2.0, 2.0_beta, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.01, 3.1 (+23)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 11: through 6.0.2900.2180; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.0 (+61)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0192.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2009-07/0193.html
http://websecurity.com.ua/3338/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505092/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505120/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/505122/100/0/threaded

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