Vulnerabilities > CVE-2009-2576 - Resource Management Errors vulnerability in Microsoft IE and Internet Explorer

CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

PARTIAL

network

low complexity

microsoft

CWE-399

NVD

Published: 2009-07-22

Updated: 2021-07-23

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Microsoft Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.72.3612.1713 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.72.3110.8 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2014.0216 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2516.1900 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.3502.1000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.3700.1000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50.4522.1800 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50.4807.2300 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0.2 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.40.520 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.70.1155 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.70.1158 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.71.1008.3 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.71.1712.6 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.72.2106.8 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.0518.10 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.0910.1309 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2614.3500 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2919.6307 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50.4134.0600 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50.4308.2900 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2600 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2800 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 Microsoft Internet Explorer - Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.40.308 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.70.1215 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.70.1300 Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.71.544 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2314.1003 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2919.800 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2919.3800 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.2920.0000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.3103.1000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.3105.0106 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.3314.2101 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.00.3315.1000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2.3 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50.3825.1300 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50.4030.2400 Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.50.4134.0100 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.00.2462.0000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.00.2479.0006 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.00.2600.0000 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.00.2800.1106 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.2900.2180 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.00.2900.2180 Microsoft IE 3.1 Microsoft IE 4.0 Microsoft IE 4.0A Microsoft IE 4.5 Microsoft IE 5.0 Microsoft IE 2.0 Microsoft IE 2.0_Beta Microsoft IE 6 Microsoft IE 5.0.1 Microsoft IE 3.01 Microsoft IE 5.22 Microsoft IE 4.X Microsoft IE 4.0.1 Microsoft IE 4.1 Microsoft IE 5.01 Microsoft IE 3.0.1 Microsoft IE 5.2.3 Microsoft IE 5.1 Microsoft IE 3.0 Microsoft IE * Microsoft IE 5.0_Ta3 Microsoft IE 5.1.1 Microsoft IE 5.X Microsoft IE 5 Microsoft IE 5.1.7 Microsoft IE 5.2	142

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

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