CVE-2007-2161

Impact

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser hang) via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /(.)*/.

Affected products

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://osvdb.org/43314
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715
• http://osvdb.org/43314
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466017/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466043/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466175/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33715