Summary
This host is installed with Internet Explorer and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability.
Impact
Successful exploitation lets the attacker to cause memory or CPU consumption, resulting in Denial of Service condition.
Impact Level: Application
Solution
No solution or patch was made available for at least one year since disclosure of this vulnerability. Likely none will be provided anymore.
General solution options are to upgrade to a newer release, disable respective features, remove the product or replace the product by another one.
Insight
Error exists when application fails to handle user supplied input into the 'write' method via a long Unicode string argument.
Affected
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 6.0.2900.2180 and prior
References
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2009-2576 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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