Internet Explorer findText Unicode Parsing Denial of Service (CVE-2009-2655)

Microsoft Internet Explorer is the most widely used Internet browser. A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in the way Microsoft Internet Explorer parses HTML pages. The vulnerability is due to an error in the mshtml.dll library. A remote attacker might exploit this issue by...

Microsoft Internet Explorer 'findText()' Unicode Parsing DoS Vulnerability

This host has Internet Explorer installed and is prone to Denial of Service vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbmsiefindtextdosvulnaug09.nasl 6527 2017-07-05 05:56:34Z cfischer $ Microsoft Internet Explorer 'findText' Unicode Parsing DoS Vulnerability Authors: Sharath S Copyright:...

Code injection

mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Windows XP SP3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash by calling the JavaScript findText method with a crafted Unicode string in the first argument, and only one additional argument, as demonstrated by a second...